Software Engineer, Systems San Francisco, New York City, Seattle

Braintrust Data, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

AI Stipend

Job summary

Braintrust Data, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer in San Francisco to contribute to high-performance data processing systems. You will work on optimizing storage, indexing, and query execution for massive volumes of unstructured data. Candidates should have expert-level knowledge in C++ or Rust and experience in database systems. Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, flexible time off, daily lunch, and competitive salary and equity.

Qualifications

• Experience in database systems, compilers, networks, or storage systems.
• Expert-level understanding of systems programming with C++ or Rust.
• Previous startup experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the storage, indexing, and query execution performance of Brainstore.
• Optimize query patterns to improve performance across the platform.
• Collaborate closely with founding team on system architecture.

Skills

Systems programming (C++ or Rust)

Concurrency

Databases

Operating systems

Experience with GPT models

Job description

About the role

We're looking for a software engineer who loves to build high performance data processing systems. Our customers are scaled up companies who send complex, semi-structured data which they need to process and analyze in real-time. Our unique architecture allows them to store this data on-prem, while creating complex visualizations that load instantly. Check out our Brainstore blog post .

If you've worked on database systems, compilers, networks, or storage systems, and want to translate this knowledge to the AI field, this could be the role for you. You will play a significant role in the foundational system architecture, technology choices, and implementation. Our founding team has deep expertise in database and ML systems, and you'll be empowered to both collaborate closely with them and explore your own ideas.

What you'll do

As a systems engineer at Braintrust, you’ll help build the core systems powering Braintrust's ability to process and query massive volumes of unstructured data at enterprise scale. Areas of ownership include:

• Contribute to the storage, indexing, and query execution performance of Brainstore.
• Optimizing query patterns to improve performance across our platform.
• Expert-level understanding of systems programming (C++ or Rust, concurrency, databases, operating systems)
• Previous experience founding or working at startups is a plus
• Has written prompts / tinkered with GPT models and apps

Benefits include

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
• Flexible time off
• Competitive salary and equity
• AI Stipend

Equal opportunity

Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.