Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer

Aquabyte; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited vacation policy

Flexible working hours

Medical, vision, & dental insurance

Retirement matching plan

Potential travel to Norway

Mentorship opportunities

Job summary

Aquabyte in San Francisco is hiring a Platform Engineer responsible for building and operating a cloud-based data platform. The role includes developing data pipelines, optimizing models, and ensuring scalable AI applications. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and containerization with solid software engineering skills. The position provides competitive salary and benefits, including unlimited vacation and a hybrid work policy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Python or Go.
• 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment (AWS, Docker).
• Strong software engineering skills; knowledge of best practices, testing, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud-based data platform.
• Develop robust data pipelines for ingestion and processing.
• Ensure AI applications scale reliably to support remote cameras.

Skills

Backend development in Python or Go

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Containerization (Docker)

Cloud networking and security

Job description

Our mission

Aquabyte is on a mission to revolutionize the sustainability and efficiency of aquaculture. It is an audacious, and incredibly rewarding mission. By making fish farming more efficient and viable, we aim to promote healthy (for the fish and environment) production of low carbon protein and mitigate one of the biggest causes of climate change. Aquaculture is the single fastest growing food-production sector in the world, and now is the time to define how technology is used to harvest the sea and preserve it for generations to come.

We are a diverse, mission-driven team that is eager to work alongside kindred spirits. If this vision inspires you please get in touch.

Our product

We are currently focused on helping salmon farmers better understand their fish population and make environmentally sound decisions. Through custom underwater cameras, computer vision, and machine learning we are able to quantify fish weights, detect the health status, and generate optimal feeding plans in real time. Our product operates at three levels: on-site hardware for image capture, cloud pipelines for data processing, and a user-facing web application. As a result, there are hundreds of moving pieces and no shortage of fascinating challenges across all levels of the stack.

Above all, Aquabyte is a customer-driven company. Our product development is dictated by the needs of fish farmers and we prioritize customer delight in everything we do. We are committed to building a global, collaborative team.

The role

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating our cloud-based data platform. You will develop robust data pipelines for ingestion and processing, optimize data models and SQL queries, and ensure our AI applications scale reliably to support a rapidly growing fleet of remote cameras. You will design secure network architectures between cloud platforms and remote IoT devices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Python or Go
• 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment (AWS, Docker)
• Experience with cloud networking and security - VPC, DNS, VPN, PKI
• Provision compute resources, scaling and optimization
• Strong software engineering skills; knowledge of best practices, testing, and deployment

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Strong data analytics & modeling & ML skills
• Experience in managing IoT devices

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Flexible working hours + hybrid work policy
• Medical, vision, & dental insurance
• Retirement matching plan
• Potential travel to Norway
• Evolve in a fast-paced environment
• Be able to shape a business in its early days
• Get ideas, feedback, and suggestions from other best-in-their-field colleagues
• Mentorship opportunities, we'll be dedicated to investing in you and supporting you as you grow

$140,000 - $170,000 a year

Aquabyte takes a market-based approach to compensation. The pay varies on a variety of factors including: job-related qualification, years of experience and competence level, interview performance, and work location.

At Aquabyte, we admire interesting people with a unique background. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t satisfy all the requirements, and we will get back to you as soon as possible!