Staff Software Engineer (Cloud and AI)

The role

You will design and own critical services and lead high-impact architectural decisions for AI-native cloud infrastructure. You will work across the stack from distributed cloud infrastructure to AI-driven features like retrieval, memory, and agent orchestration.

What you will do

• Design and own critical services
• Lead high-impact architectural decisions
• Work across the stack from distributed cloud infrastructure to AI-driven features
• Collaborate with leadership and product teams
• Act as a technical leader to mentor engineers and drive engineering culture
• Contribute to Readyset's engineering strategy and vision

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven ability to design and run cloud services at scale with high availability (3–4 9s)
• Experience with AI/ML systems or integrating LLMs into production
• Expert backend development experience in Python, Golang, Java, Rust etc.
• Deep familiarity with AWS
• Demonstrated technical leadership

Nice to have

• exposure to databases, data platforms, or large-scale systems
• familiarity with modern frontend frameworks
• experience with GCP/Azure

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• unlimited PTO with minimum vacation recommendations
• 90 days of paid parental leave
• equity

About the company

Readyset is building a database cache with zero integration cost. The company is adapting its database performance technology to address the next generation of AI infrastructure.