Exponent

Exponent

Systems Engineer

San Francisco, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 427 days ago
PythonSwiftFastAPICode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesSystems EngineeringCommunication

About the role

  • We believe the future of professional software engineering is humans managing fleets of AI agents.
  • This won't just be for writing code, however, but also for responding to incidents, analyzing production data, automatically fixing bugs, and reviewing code.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain one of the key infrastructure components of Exponent, such as the Exponent control plane server, the fleet of servers hosting user codebases, database proxies, continuous release pipelines for on prem deployments, and so on.
  • We build from the ground up on simple primitives: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, and Redis Have experience working on a systems or infrastructure project, such as a compiler, orchestration system, message queue, database, or other distributed system.

Requirements

  • Innovate on new infrastructure that hasn't been invited yet that will be required to make working with agents at scale possible for large enterprise engineering teams.
  • Strong candidates will have a few of the following: Have experience with modern backend Python stack.
  • Have experience with modern backend Python stack.

Nice to have

  • Python, FastAPI, Postgres, and Redis Have experience working on a systems or infrastructure project, such as a compiler, orchestration system, message queue, database, or other distributed system.
  • Exponent's product requires fault tolerant, low latency, and real time communication between several services, and a history of working on such systems is a plus.

Skills

  • Exponent is in a unique position to shape this future.

Company info

  • Are taking an ambitious approach to a massive market, and each team member's responsibilities reflect this.
  • At Exponent, a single-engineer owned product like the Code Review Agent regularly outperforms entire companies dedicated to the same problem.
  • Are a team of engineers who have each been building software for over a decade, and value technical depth in a world where it's increasingly easy to forego it.
  • We come from a background of systems and infrastructure engineering, working on things like the Swift Compiler, distributed data orchestration software, and scaled video conferencing systems.
  • We will invite you to visit us at our office for at least one day where we'll go through your past experience and work through some problems together.

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