Staff Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical direction and architectural leadership for a new AI platform in Bengaluru. You will lead distributed systems initiatives to enable scalable deployment of AI applications, collaborating with research, product, and engineering teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, reviews, and development practices while delivering high-quality software with a collaborative, honesty-driven culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building distributed systems or foundational cloud services at scale.
• Strong background in high-scale compute and data distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the first version and future evolution of the service with cross-functional teams.
• Design, build and deliver core platform pieces with other stakeholders.
• Shape architecture, perform code reviews, and improve developer experience as the team grows.
• Mentor engineers and own projects end-to-end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Java

Leadership

Cloud services

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using the company.

As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. the company engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living the company cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Bengaluru for our hybrid working model.

Position Expectations

• Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
• Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects

Qualifications

• Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
• 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

the company is an equal opportunities employer.

the company is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.