Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer – Data Infrastructure at Striveworks, you'll be challenged—and trusted—from day one to be a primary contributor to the projects and the company's direction.

Chariot is used by our clients to develop, deploy, and sustain production ML models. We're in search of exceptional engineers with a product mindset, capable of crafting quality code in Go and Python, and who have the desire to be significant contributors to the company's direction. If you possess and value technical expertise and constantly seek to extend your abilities, and are driven by outcomes rather than requirements, this is the right challenge for you. We're on the lookout for individuals who are excited by our key development focuses:

• Code Everything
• Development that is Cloud-neutral
• New workflow orchestration
• Hexagonal, event-driven Microservice Architecture
• Optimizing, deploying, and refining AI models and algorithms

The expected base pay range for this role is $210,000–$270,000/year. Striveworks' total compensation package includes competitive base , annual performance-based equity grants, and a substantial yearly cash bonus.

This position offers a completely remote work environment, or you have the option to work in a hybrid/onsite arrangement at our office in northwest Austin, TX.

The Right Fit

We spend a significant amount of time discussing shared values during our hiring process.

Why? We fundamentally believe that promoting an environment where individuals can realize their full potential and strive for greatness is integral to achieving both our individual and collective objectives.

What does this mean for you? We aim to offer you the conditions to flourish in an atmosphere where you can reach your objectives, knowing that the team shares your goals, and where decisions are made and accepted for the team with humility. At Striveworks, we hope your say/do ratio is 1 and understand that being part of an elite team means that no individual is the smartest person in the room. If that resonates with you, we're already on the same wavelength.

Here's what else we're looking for:

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Excellence in Go, C++ (17 or later), Java (11 or later), C# (9 or later), or Rust
• Competency in Python
• Experience with DevOps tools: CI/CD tools, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
• Substantial experience with cloud architecture: commercial cloud, OpenStack
• Experience in designing and developing efficient, scalable services
• Familiarity with database design and architecture: both relational and non-relational
• Capability to work cross-functionally and participate or lead design discussions
• Capability to steer the software development lifecycle from requirements gathering, to design, implementation, and deployment
• Experience in knowledge sharing, coaching or mentoring (e.g., onboarding, code reviews, leading junior engineers)
• A deep understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns and documentation, and agile methodologies
• A driven, self-guided personality
• A passionate commitment to making a difference
• Eligibility to work in the US without sponsorship (e.g., Permanent Resident, U.S. Citizen)
• A Bachelor’s degree in CS or a related field

The Wish List

We are highly interested in developers who meet the above criteria, and we greatly value and consider the following additions:

• Three or more years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Three or more years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and/or cross-business projects
• Experience building and operationalizing end-to-end data pipelines
• Understanding of Big Data processing tools, such as Spark, Hadoop, Storm, Kafka
• Knowledge of data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake and integrating them in existing systems
• Experience creating efficient pipelines to cleanse, transform and reconcile data from diverse sources
• Understanding of caching techniques and how to apply them to optimize network utilization
• Experience using analysis and data mining techniques to understand data quality
• Experience in designing anomaly detection systems to monitor data changes and quality loss

The Benefits

• Market-leading salary and total compensation
• Generous equity package
• Health/vision/dental insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Parental leave

Striveworks: Faster, Better Models

The world has relied on data analysis to bridge the divide between an abundance of information and the challenge to use the data effectively for making timely, impactful decisions. Today, most organizations are overwhelmed with analytics that are "not quite right"—models that are developed too broadly, or too slowly, to be effective in dynamic, fast-paced environments. Striveworks is simplifying ModelOps with a robust and extensible platform that turns the data analytic process into code.

Respected by leading Fortune 500 firms and government sector leaders, Striveworks is trusted as a primary solution for managing model development, monitoring, and governance—and ensuring those models address the real challenges their organizations face.

Striveworks' Chariot platform allows users to convert their own production data into models and transform these models into production systems. As you train, test, deploy, and apply models, our lineage system lets you trace not just the "upstream" origin of model and data sources, but also the "downstream" usage of the resulting model inferences. Combined with a principled approach to data and model development, Chariot provides our customers in highly regulated industries an industry-leading governance solution on top of a high-performing ModelOps platform.

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. Discrimination or harassment of any kind will not be tolerated at Striveworks.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact the HR department at [email protected]

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