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Clarifai

Senior Backend Engineer

Clarifai, New York, New York, us, 10261


We are looking for someone comfortable in several programming languages and excited about building new features in Go and PythonYou should care about software design and have built systems that other people love to use and work with, and have experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systemsA minimum of 3+ year of backend software development experience (i.eStrong background in building scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systemsPast experience in building applications such as data pipelines, data caching/storage systems, and/or RPC servicesExperience with performance tuningSelf driven, communicative, and fun to work withGreat to HaveExperience with Golang or Python is a huge plusPrevious experience with developing machine learning infrastructureDeep understanding of any SQL/NoSQL DBExperience working in a tech company/industryExperience working on a distributed teamResponsibilities

You build the systems and services behind the Clarifai magicQualifications

We are looking for someone comfortable in several programming languages and excited about building new features in Go and PythonYou should care about software design and have built systems that other people love to use and work with, and have experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systemsA minimum of 3+ year of backend software development experience (i.eC++, Python, Java, Golang, C#, etc.)Strong background in building scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systemsPast experience in building applications such as data pipelines, data caching/storage systems, and/or RPC servicesExperience with performance tuningSelf driven, communicative, and fun to work withAgile experienceGreat to HaveExperience with Golang or Python is a huge plusPrevious experience with developing machine learning infrastructureDeep understanding of any SQL/NoSQL DBExperience working in a tech company/industryExperience working on a distributed teamResponsibilities

You build the systems and services behind the Clarifai magicAbout the Company

Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, LLM's and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D... Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, India and Estonia.

We have raised $100M in funding to date, with $60M coming from our most recent Series C, and are backed by industry leaders like Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Osage.

Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Impact

You build the systems and services behind the Clarifai magic. Neural networks are data-hungry beasts, and you keep them well fed!

As a core team member building and improving our AI platform you will work with a variety of technologies (Python, Golang, C++, Postgres, Redshift, Docker, Redis, REST, AWS, and Kubernetes. Don't worry if you haven't used some of these, we will teach you anything you don't know!). Your work will enable customers and researchers to build production level ML/DL models at scale.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Engineer, you collaborate with your colleagues on the backend team to set a technical vision for our AI systems, as well as train and mentor engineers to develop their skills and technical understanding. You architect our AI web services in addition to improving existing features, reliability, flexibility, and scalability as usage increases.

We are looking for someone comfortable in several programming languages and excited about building new features in Go and Python. You should care about software design and have built systems that other people love to use and work with, and have experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems.

Requirements• A minimum of 3+ year of backend software development experience (i.e. C++, Python, Java, Golang, C#, etc.)• Understanding of microservices architecture and best practices• Strong background in building scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems.• Past experience in building applications such as data pipelines, data caching/storage systems, and/or RPC services• Experience with performance tuning• Self driven, communicative, and fun to work with• Agile experience

Great to Have• Experience with Golang or Python is a huge plus• Previous experience with developing machine learning infrastructure• Deep understanding of any SQL/NoSQL DB.• Experience working in a tech company/industry. AI experience is a plus.• Experience working on a distributed team

Clarifai focuses on Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Search, and Developer APIs. Their company has offices in New York City, Argentina, Estonia, India, and United States. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees. To date, Clarifai has raised $100M of funding; their latest round was closed on October 2021.

You can view their website at https://clarifai.com/ or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Company informationClarifai is a deep learning AI platform for modeling unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. We help commercial and public sector organizations transform their unstructured data into structured data significantly faster and more accurately than humans can do on their own. Our technology is used across many industries including retail, media and entertainment, manufacturing, defense, and more. Our technology helps companies build turnkey AI solutions for brand safety and moderation; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; digital asset management; product recommendations and organization and visual inspection for equipment maintenance. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States and in Tallinn, Estonia. Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.Company Specialties:artificial intelligence, neural networks, deep learning, API, image recognition, machine learning, software, computer vision, research, data labeling services, data annotation, natural language processing, AI platform, object detection, visual recognition, predictive maintenance, social listening, content moderation, text moderation, face recognition, pre-trained AI models, and custom modeling

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