Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core

Job summary

Responsibilities

At Anyscale, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning.

• Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, defining the roadmap, identifying the most important technical problems, and driving execution through production.
• Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations.
• Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for distributed computing infrastructure used by demanding production workloads.
• Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives rather than simply integrating existing platforms or frameworks.
• Work on problems involving areas such as distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, or system performance.

What they're looking for

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of increasing technical ownership.
• Experience leading substantial projects end to end, including defining the problem, creating a roadmap, making architectural decisions, driving implementation, and owning the…
• Experience leading projects that are larger than a single-engineer effort, typically spanning multiple engineers and lasting multiple quarters.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems.
• Strong systems programming experience in languages such as C++, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level languages.

Tech stack

• Ray
• C++
• Rust
• Java
• Spark
• Kafka
• Azure
• GCP