Distributed Systems/Backend Engineer

About Us

Union.ai is a Seattle-based startup founded by a team of former Lyft engineers.  We contribute to Flyte,  an open source platform for orchestrating massively scalable machine learning pipelines running on Kubernetes. 

These pipelines power some of the most popular apps on your phone, as well as applications in diverse industries such as song sharing, vaccine research, early cancer detection, global map rendering, financial projecting, and piloting autonomous vehicles.

The Opportunity

Our Back-End Engineers work on cutting edge problems, many of which will be open sourced,  providing an opportunity to share with the broader open source community.

In this role, you will:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

• We are considering candidates with at least 2-3 years of experience building core distributed services and high performance systems engineering

• Design large scale, multi-tenant distributed control planes that manage complicated ML and Data Processes

• Design modern Golang based gRPC services

• Build core algorithms to help distributed ML and Data systems scale more easily

• Build core distributed scheduling systems on Kubernetes

• Build simplified interfaces that delight our customers - ML Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems Administrators. 

• Manage terabytes of data in an efficient and secure manner

• Implement high performance Golang applications that can scale to millions of operations per second

• Work with the open source community and internal team members to deliver value across multiple organizations

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to ensure seamless integration with a global team and the open-source community

• Expertise in maintaining and debugging live software systems

• Ability to identify tasks which require automation and carry out the automation process

• Solid experience in Golang

Benefits & Belonging

At Union.ai we know that employees who feel their best can build amazing things and we are proud to offer best in class benefits that will continually evolve and grow as the needs of our employees do. Benefits may vary based on country

• Excellent medical - We pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents

• Generous dental and vision plans- We pay 80% of the premiums for you and your dependents

• Meaningful equity in the form of options – all employees are owners here

• Unlimited PTO + 12 company holidays 

• 401K match: Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5%

• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

• Flexible work schedule at a remote friendly company

We believe that our differences are what bring us together to achieve truly special outcomes. We strive to be inclusive and focus on building teams that embody that quality too. Union.ai is an equal-opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t align exactly with our job description.