Software Engineer

Salary Range: 200000 to 250000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Mission

• Build and operate core platform services that power production systems
• Design internal APIs, service patterns, and shared libraries that enable teams to ship quickly and safely
• Own reliability in real-world environments: deployments, failures, observability, incident response, and debugging
• Improve our developer experience: CI/CD, testing workflows, environment management, and self-serve tooling
• Aid in production hardening: rollout strategies, safe migrations, incident playbooks, reliability testing
• Service orchestration primitives: queues, schedulers, retries, idempotency, cancellations, and long-running workflows
• Partner closely with backend, ML, robotics, and science teams to turn platform needs into clean abstractions

About you

• 5+ years of experience building backend systems in production environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (design, implementation, testing, reliability).
• Fluency in at least one backend language: e.g., Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Comfort operating services in the real world: on-call, debugging, performance bottlenecks, failure modes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) and integrating security checks within them.
• Ability to build clean abstractions that other engineers actually want to use.
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, etc.).
• Understanding of network security concepts (e.g., firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation, Tailscale).
• Strong ownership and bias toward action: you find the sharp edges and sand them down.

Pluses

• Exposure to machine learning lifecycles or MLOps concepts.
• Experience with distributed systems (queues, schedulers, event-driven architectures, consistency tradeoffs).
• Background in scientific computing, robotics, or automation-heavy environments.
• Solid understanding of security principles, practices, and common security tools (e.g., vulnerability scanners, intrusion detection systems).
• Experience with security and compliance software (e.g., Drata, Apptega).

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package also includes the best in benefits:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family covered at 100%
• Mental health and wellness support
• Unlimited PTO and 14+ company holidays per year
• 401K 
• Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research.
• A mission: an opportunity to fundamentally change the way humanity makes progress through materials science discovery.