Software Engineer - Data Acquisition (Systems)

Skills

About the Role

You will build and operate infrastructure supporting frontier research and research-facing systems. You'll improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, and automation, debug issues across networking, compute, storage and orchestration, and partner with researchers and infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

• Strong systems fundamentals
• Comfortable with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations
• Ability to write software to automate, debug, and improve infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and research-facing services
• Support and improve systems across data infrastructure, processing, crawl and ingest, caching, search, observability, and clusterwide services
• Improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, automation, and deployment workflows
• Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and service reliability layers
• Build software and automation that reduce manual operational work
• Partner with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and service owners
• Help evolve infrastructure toward scalable, standard patterns
• Take ownership of critical systems and drive work independently

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends