Senior Software Engineer, Datasets

Build Deploy and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

TheRole

As a Senior Software Engineer at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to be a core contributor to the products and direction of the company.

Our customers use Chariot our flagship product to develop deploy and maintain production ML models. Were looking for exemplary engineers with a product mindset who can write quality code in Go and Python and who ultimately want to be core contributors to the direction of the company. Youre right for this challenge if you value and possess technical expertise if you push the boundaries of your own capabilities and if you are outcome driven not requirements driven. Were looking for people who are excited about our central development themes:

• Everything as Code
• Cloud-neutral development
• User-centric design
• Hexagonal event-driven microservices architecture
• Optimizing deploying and refining AI models and algorithms

This position offers a fully remote work environment or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin TX.

TheRight Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what else were looking for:

• 68 years of hands-on development experience
• Excellence in Go C (17 or higher) Java (11 or higher) C# (9 or higher) or Rust
• Strong background in relational database design architecture operation and performance
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with DevOps tooling: CI/CD tools Git Docker Kubernetes
• Proven experience with cloud architecture: commercial cloud OpenStack
• Experience in the design and development of performant scalable services
• Ability to work cross-functionally and participate in or lead design discussions
• Ability to independently lead the software development life cycle from collaborating with product teams on requirements to executing technical design implementation and deployment
• Experience in knowledge sharing mentoring and coaching (e.g. onboarding code reviews leading junior engineers)
• Strong understanding of software development principles such as object-oriented programming design patterns documentation and agile methodologies
• Driven self-directed personality
• Strong sense of mission and commitment to making a difference
• Bachelors degree in CS or related field or similar experience
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must be a US person (a US citizen a US national or a Green Card holder)

TheWish List

Were very interested in developers who possess the above qualifications and we heavily appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Professional experience designing Postgres databases and optimizing query performance on them
• Familiarity with non-relational database design and architecture
• Understanding of synchronous/asynchronous programming and concurrency
• Comfort with integration of deep learning libraries (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow)
• Experience designing RESTful gRPC or GraphQL APIs
• Understanding of networked and distributed computing
• Knowledge of messaging systems (e.g. NATS Kafka RabbitMQ)
• Experience with workflow automation

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160000 to $200000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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