Member of Engineering (Back-end)

poolside; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI development company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design and implement their multi-tenant cloud and enterprise platform. You will work in a remote-first environment and collaborate across Europe and North America. The ideal candidate should have strong API development experience, knowledge of distributed systems, and proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Ruby, or Python. Excellent benefits include flexible hours and a diverse culture.

Benefits

Fully remote work & flexible hours

37 days/year of vacation & holidays

Health insurance allowance for dependents

Company-provided equipment

Wellbeing and home office allowances

Frequent team gatherings

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Experience building API back-ends for large user bases or high request volumes.
• Comfortable with distributed systems and cloud environments.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and containerization in production.

Responsibilities

• Build the poolside platform as the backbone of the product experience.
• Develop cloud and enterprise product offerings.
• Ensure scalability of the poolside product experience for developers.

Skills

API back-end development

Distributed systems

Developer experience tools

Testing code

Programming in Go, Ruby or Python

DevOps tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

ABOUT POOLSIDE

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

poolside exists to be this company - to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Design and implement our multi-tenant cloud and single-tenant enterprise platform that powers the poolside product experience for developers.

YOUR MISSION

Deliver a scalable poolside product experience to developers by building our cloud and enterprise product offering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

On this team you will build the poolside platform, the backbone of our product experience that sits between our LLM (Large Language Model) and our end-user product (editor extensions, and web application).

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Experience building API back-ends that serve large number of users or that have a high volume of requests

• Experience deploying on Enterprise single-tenant environments is a plus

• Comfortable with distributed systems

  • Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization

  • Message queues, event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, Google pub/sub

  • Clouds: managed services, storage. GCP, AWS, Azure

• Experience with developer experience tools

  • Worked on CI/CD pipelines

  • Worked with containerization in production environments

• Experience with testing code

  • Unit testing

  • Integration testing

  • Test performance optimization

• Programming languages

  • Experience in either Go, Ruby or Python (we're open to people from other languages)

  • Big plus if you've worked with C++ or other lower level languages

• Other relevant tools/experience

  • DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal

  • Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

PROCESS

• Intro call with José, our Head of Production Engineering

• Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers

• Team fit call with the People team

• Final interview with Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

BENEFITS

• Fully remote work & flexible hours

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays

• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents

• Company-provided equipment

• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances

• Frequent team get togethers

• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture