Handshake
Senior Software Engineer, Coding
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
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About the role
- Working closely with ML researchers, product managers, and engineers, you'll translate ambiguous research goals into production-ready systems that accelerate model development and improve evaluation quality.
- This is an opportunity to shape the infrastructure behind next-generation AI coding systems while solving challenging distributed systems, data engineering, and developer platform problems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable data infrastructure that powers the generation, transformation, validation, and delivery of large-scale coding datasets.
- Design end-to-end evaluation systems, including automated grading, benchmarking, human-in-the-loop review, and quality assurance workflows.
- Lead the technical design of developer-facing tooling and integrations with engineering ecosystems (GitHub, CI/CD systems, coding agents, containerized execution environments).
- Build reliable backend services and APIs that support dataset generation, evaluation pipelines, and experiment infrastructure.
- Drive architectural decisions around distributed systems, workflow orchestration, execution environments, and data quality.
- Partner closely with ML researchers to translate evolving evaluation methodologies into scalable engineering systems.
- Mentor engineers through technical design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our Coding Pod, you'll lead the design and development of the data infrastructure that powers frontier AI coding models.
- You'll own critical platform investments end-to-end, from architecting scalable data pipelines and evaluation systems to establishing technical standards for dataset quality, reliability, and developer workflows.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines, distributed systems, or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Familiarity with containerized execution environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and distributed job processing.
- Strong understanding of relational and/or NoSQL databases, data modeling, and storage systems.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and translate evolving research or product requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of partnering effectively with researchers, product managers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with coding agents, AI-assisted software development tools, or developer productivity platforms.
- Familiarity with GitHub APIs, developer ecosystems, CI/CD platforms, or code execution environments.
- Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Temporal, Dagster, or similar distributed job systems.
- Background working on infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer tooling in high-growth environments.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation, coding benchmarks, or agentic software engineering systems.
- Passion for advancing AI-powered software development through scalable engineering infrastructure.
Compensation
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
Benefits
- Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported-and thrive at work and in life.
- The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
- 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
- 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
- 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
- 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
- 💻 Office: Commuting support, free lunch, and gym in our SF office
- 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
- Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
Company info
- Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know.
- Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
- In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history.
- We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.
- We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
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