About the position
At Union, we are solving one of the hardest challenges in AI infrastructure today: enabling high-velocity iteration while maintaining seamless production-readiness for AI workloads at scale. Flyte, the open-source project we steward, is the emerging standard for modern data and AI orchestration, with numerous leading technology organizations - like LinkedIn, Spotify, and Gojek - running millions of mission-critical workloads on the platform. We have a deep bench of infrastructure veterans from companies in the Big Three and beyond and a technical founding team who originally created Flyte while at Lyft. Our Back-End Engineers work on cutting edge problems, many of which will be open sourced, providing an opportunity to share with the broader open source community. In this role, you will: Design large scale, multi-tenant distributed control planes that manage complicated ML and Data Processes, Design modern Golang based gRPC services, Build core algorithms to help distributed ML and Data systems scale more easily, Build core distributed scheduling systems on Kubernetes, Build simple, elegant APIs that delight our customers - ML Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems Administrators, Implement high performance Golang applications that can scale to millions of operations per second, Work with the open source community and internal team members to deliver value across multiple organizations.
Responsibilities
- Design large scale, multi-tenant distributed control planes that manage complicated ML and Data Processes
- Design modern Golang based gRPC services
- Build core algorithms to help distributed ML and Data systems scale more easily
- Build core distributed scheduling systems on Kubernetes
- Build simple, elegant APIs that delight our customers - ML Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems Administrators
- Implement high performance Golang applications that can scale to millions of operations per second
- Work with the open source community and internal team members to deliver value across multiple organizations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years’ experience building scalable, performant distributed services in any strongly-typed language
- Proven discipline to check in code that is well-tested and well-documented
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to ensure seamless integration with a global team and the open-source community
- Expertise in maintaining and debugging live software systems
- Ability to identify tasks which require automation and carry out the automation process
Benefits
- Excellent medical - We pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents
- Generous dental and vision plans- We pay 90% of the premiums for you and your dependents
- Meaningful equity in the form of options – all employees are owners here
- Unlimited time off + 12 company holidays
- 401K match - Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5%
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Flexible work schedule at a remote friendly company
