Anyscale
Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- We're commercializing Ray, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning.
- Companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, Cruise, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.
Responsibilities
- Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, defining the roadmap, identifying the most important technical problems, and driving execution through production.
- Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations.
- Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives rather than simply integrating existing platforms or frameworks.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of increasing technical ownership.
- Experience leading substantial projects end to end, including defining the problem, creating a roadmap, making architectural decisions, driving implementation, and owning the outcome in production.
- Experience leading projects that are larger than a single-engineer effort, typically spanning multiple engineers and lasting multiple quarters.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems.
- Strong systems programming experience in languages such as C++, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level languages.
- Strong understanding of systems concepts such as multithreading/concurrency, distributed coordination, resource management, fault tolerance, performance, or networking.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of the teams around you.
Nice to have
- We're on a mission to make scalable computing effortless.
- Ray is the AI Compute Engine at the center of some of the world's most powerful AI platforms
- Our tech is in production at companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, and Cruise
- We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition, with $250M+ raised to date
- Recent partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud are putting AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
- Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Nice to have: Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
Skills
- Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity, plus health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered)
Company info
- About Anyscale: At Anyscale, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels.
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