Full-Time
Senior Software Engineer
Infrastructure
Posted on 1/23/2025
Snorkel AI
201-500 employees
Transforms manual AI processes into programmatic solutions
No salary listed
Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more
More locations: San Carlos, CA, USA
Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the Redwood City HQ or the SF office.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Strong development and debugging skills in Python
- 5+ years of software development experience in distributed systems and cloud-native applications
- Strong experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm)
- Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE)
- Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis, resolution and software test engineering
- Strong communication and coding skills
- Regularly follows the best software engineering practices and hold a high bar for the team by leading design, code review and test plan reviews
- Design, build, and maintain services and deployment for Snorkel’s enterprise platforms
- Design, build, and improve observability and alerting for Snorkel’s enterprise platforms
- Contribute to Snorkel’s inhouse deployment management software to installation and upgrades of various deployments for Snorkel’s enterprise customers
- Build and maintain Snorkel’s production and staging infrastructure; own our k8s and cloud strategy
- Work closely with various engineering teams in defining test strategies and build infrastructure to execute the same
- Deploy and optimize CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments and continuously improve development and deployment best practices
- Collaborate with enterprise customers to understand product use cases and translate into engineering specifications, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational duties to ensure service delivery quality
- Extremely well versed in building and managing cloud infrastructure for enterprise platforms on (AWS, GCP, Azure) and services like EC2, EKS, VPC etc
- Experience in one or more of the build tools like Bazel, Gradle, Make etc. Extra points for someone who has hands on experience in building and managing large code bases with these tools
- Designed and implemented developer-friendly APIs or tools to boost developer productivity
- Familiarity in deployment, monitoring and maintenance of large-scale enterprise software products
- Familiarity in developing and releasing infrastructure software for SaaS and on-prem platforms
- Hands-on experience setting up and operating Kubernetes clusters at scale
- Experience with large scale distributed computing systems for ML Training or Serving, eg: Ray, Spark, Tensorflow etc
- Hands-on experience in creating and maintaining metrics and dashboards on observability platforms such as New Relic, DataDog, Chronosphere, or similar tools
- Experience building services and infrastructure for Machine learning and AI Systems
- Experience in cloud networking, security and service mesh like istio
Snorkel AI focuses on enhancing AI development by transforming traditional manual processes into programmatic solutions. This allows businesses to create AI systems that are specifically designed for their unique workloads in a much shorter time frame. The technology, which originated from research at the Stanford AI lab, is already in use by major organizations, including five of the top ten US banks, various government agencies, and numerous Fortune 500 companies. Snorkel AI differentiates itself from competitors by providing proprietary data and knowledge that streamline the AI deployment process. The company's goal is to make AI development more efficient and accessible for enterprises, enabling them to leverage AI effectively in their operations.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$131.3M
Headquarters
Redwood City, California
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Snorkel AI's partnership with Together AI enables custom LLMs for enterprises.
- The release of Snorkel Flow 2023.R4 enhances user experience and tool integration.
- Growing demand for programmatic data labeling boosts Snorkel AI's market potential.
What critics are saying
- Open-source AI platforms like Together AI increase competition for Snorkel AI.
- Copyright lawsuits against AI firms pose potential legal risks for Snorkel AI.
- Rapid expansion may lead to integration challenges within Snorkel AI's operations.
What makes Snorkel AI unique
- Snorkel AI uses programmatic data labeling to accelerate AI development.
- The company transforms proprietary data into AI-ready datasets for specialized models.
- Snorkel AI's technology originated from Stanford AI Lab research.
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Benefits
Health - Snorkelers and their dependents are covered by comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
Environment - We provide an allowance for Snorkelers to set up workstations however they want.
Wellness - Snorkelers are given a yearly wellness stipend to be used on anything relating to health and well-being.
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -3%1 year growth
↓ -12%2 year growth
↓ -17%Artificial intelligence (AI) companies have reached the far borders of the “data frontier.”. That’s according to a report Saturday (Aug. 31) by the Financial Times (FT), which noted that this issue is making things worse as AI firms face a wave of copyright lawsuits and allegations that they are aggressively scraping data from the internet. For example, AI startup Anthropic was recently sued by a trio of authors who accused the company of “stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books,” saying the company “never sought — let alone paid for — a license to copy and exploit the protected expression contained in the copyrighted works fed into its models.”
The leading AI data development platform adds its first CDO, CFO, CMO and CPO and announces SnorkelCon to be held in New York CitySAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Snorkel AI is building upon its latest phase of rapid growth with four major c-suite appointments. Collectively, these executives are AI pioneers and experts in global scale, with previous exits ranging from acquisitions by Google and Microsoft to IPO. Now, they'll guide Snorkel as it cements itself as a foundational piece of the AI infrastructure stack.The new executives include:Ronaldo Ama , Chief Development Officer, is a world-class engineering leader who, as Vice President of Engineering at Looker, helped lead the product and the company through its acquisition by Google. He served as GM of Looker at Google for nearly four years, and currently serves as an advisor and board member to various companies including Conclude, Hex and Yalo. His experience also includes leadership roles at Domino Data, Ayasdi and VMware.is a world-class engineering leader who, as Vice President of Engineering at Looker, helped lead the product and the company through its acquisition by Google. He served as GM of Looker at Google for nearly four years, and currently serves as an advisor and board member to various companies including Conclude, Hex and Yalo
Enterprise messaging platform Slack is debuting Slack AI, its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help users find information more easily. Slack AI is starting with a set of initial generative AI capabilities, including a search function that delivers personalized, intelligent responses to your questions, channel recaps that offer highlights from accessible channels, and thread summaries that condense longer conversations, Slack said in a Wednesday (Feb. 14) news release. “These new native features are easy to use and require no training. They prioritize exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it,” Slack said in the release
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Snorkel AI, Inc. is thrilled to announce the release of Snorkel Flow 2023.