Senior Software Engineer

Building data and AI-driven software is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we’re helping developers combine code with data and machine learning (ML) to create truly intelligent, decision-making applications. Spice AI is on a mission to make this as easy as creating a modern web page.Spice AI is the creator and primary maintainer of

Spice.ai OSS

; a unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data sourced from any database, data warehouse, or data lake. Spice OSS enables developers to build both data

and

AI-driven applications by co-locating data

and

ML models with applications. Read more about the vision to enable the development of

intelligent AI-driven applications

.Spice AI is also building the

Spice.ai Cloud Platform

; building blocks for data and AI-driven applications, including managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS. The Cloud Platform enables developers to compose high-performance SQL query, machine learning training and inferencing, in a single, interconnected AI backend-as-a-service.Spice AI hires for

MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence .We're hiring Senior Software Engineers with 5+ years of experience in production databases, data, or ML runtimes, proficient in Rust, to help us build

Spice.ai

OSS.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

Contribute to

Spice.ai

OSS -

https://github.com/spiceai/spiceaiDesign and implement databases, big data, distributed, blockchain, and machine learning systems using modern tech stacks in Rust, Golang, and Python.Build high-performance and scalable data and machine learning architecture to meet the evolution and needs of a rapidly growing platform.Grow your career with a team of experienced engineers, using the latest technologies like Apache DataFusion, Apache Arrow, and DuckDB, to create the modern data and AI platform for developers.Who we are looking for:

You are one of the smartest people you know.You are passionate about building amazing developer experiences. You start with a customer-obsessed product experience, and then figure out how to enable that with technology.You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible.You care about meaningful work and changing the world. Your work is more than a job.You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations you lead by creating clarity.You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.What we are looking for:

1+ years professional Rust experience or 3+ yrs professional C/C++ experience.Experience in designing, implementing, scaling and shipping production distributed and data systems.Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, and cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.A track record of good design, architectural, engineering and product decisions.Excellent communication skills.Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.Ideally experience contributing to open-source projects.Your First 90 Days:

Days 0-30: ramp up and contribute improvements to

Spice.ai

OSS and the

Spice.a i Cloud Platform.Days 31-60: co-design and implement a major feature.Days 61-90: take technical and engineering ownership of a major initiative or area.About Spice AIFounded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent apps that learn and adapt.Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies like

Dapr

and

OAM .Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including

Nat Friedman , Chairman of GitHub,

Mark Russinovich , CTO of Microsoft Azure, and

Thomas Dohmke , CEO of GitHub.Spice AI also has notable VC backing from

Madrona Venture Group ,

Basis Set Ventures ,

Founders' Co-op , and

Picus Capital .Learn more:- On

TechCrunch

and

GeekWire- About the team at

spice.ai/careers- The Spice.ai general availability

announcement blog post- The Spice.ai OSS project

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