Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core

The role

You will own a major technical area of Ray Core by defining roadmaps and driving execution through production. You will design and build core distributed-systems primitives and set technical direction for distributed computing infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end
• Define the roadmap and identify important technical problems
• Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations
• Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for distributed computing infrastructure
• Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives
• Work on problems involving distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, or system performance
• Stay hands-on with implementation and debugging in a systems-oriented codebase
• Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you
• Help shape the longer-term architecture and evolution of Ray Core

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience leading substantial projects end to end
• Experience leading projects that are larger than a single-engineer effort
• 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
• Experience building foundational systems such as databases, streaming systems, distributed runtimes, operating systems, schedulers, storage systems, Spark, Kafka, or similar infrastructure
• A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of the teams around you

Nice to have

• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered)
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health support

About the company

Anyscale is commercializing Ray, an open-source project for scalable machine learning. The company aims to democratize distributed computing.