DevOps Engineer, Lilt
AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
Open for applications
AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 3 years experience as Linux System Administrator, DevOps Engineer or similar position
- Strong knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
- High proficiency with at least one configuration management/infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, preferably Terraform
- Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, shared VPC, and data analytics or equivalents from other vendors
- Solid understanding of Docker and hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Swarm
- Expertise in monitoring/alerting and maintaining high production availability
- Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts, such as Jenkins
- Preferred, but not required: Experience in DevSecOps best practices, MLOps, GCP Landzone and/or DB administration
What the job involves
- Lilt is a high-performance, large-scale language translation system. We invest in and prioritize workflow (i.e., usability and interface design) and backend AI systems
- Since the translation workforce is distributed worldwide, there are interesting cloud engineering problems to solve.
- We have a strong preference for building our own backend technology, so you’ll be implementing and working with the latest natural language processing (NLP) techniques and ideas
- Lilt is seeking a world-class devops engineer to build highly reliable software systems at Lilt
- Your job will be to apply your software talents to our infrastructure and operations needs, including bare-metal Linux deployments and commercial deployments in GCP and AWS
- Our system requires low latency worldwide, so you’ll continuously improve our multi-region configuration, and help us expand into new regions. You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to support new and on-going products
- The person in this role may have technical leadership responsibility depending of experience and will collaborate to build the roadmap of the DevOps organization
- This position is a CONTRACT position between 6-12 months in length. Possibly more. Fully remote. Please note, work authorization in your area is a must
- Support technical operations in our development and production systems
- Deliver infrastructure engineering projects to support company initiatives
- Collaborate with our research and development teams to deliver software fast and reliably
- Secure our platform infrastructure and harden our on-premise builds
- Ensure high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system
- Work with engineering teams to set, measure, and reach SLIs and SLOs for SLAs
- Contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning, set and attain quarterly OKRs
- Execute on the roadmap in sprints, and adhere to SCRUM best practices
- Introduce and implement new technologies and best practices in InfoSec, DevOps and Site Reliability
- Support our self-managed customers on-site
- Technically lead a group of subject-matter experts
Our take
Widely available tools like Google Translate are not fit for complex, operationally intense processes that require expert translations. Manual methods of yesterday can't scale with the volume of digital information produced in the world today. Lilt works with companies, schools, and government agencies to provide AI-powered enterprise language translation. Lilt’s platform combines a translation management system and neural machine translation with human language experts to create a “human-in-the-loop” approach.
While companies like AI Translate offer intelligent machine translations, they still have linguists fine-tune and correct the texts afterward. With the Lilt platform, AI and humans work in collaboration through the text together, with the AI making real-time sentence suggestions and the linguist reviewing them immediately. This collaboration creates 3-5x better efficiency compared with traditional human-only translation services, aiding in Lilt's substantial rounds of funding.
Clients such as Asics, Canva, and Digital Ocean use Lilt technology for urgent campaigns and large-scale localisation projects. Recently, Lilt launched its V3.5 translation models, which improve quality by 15% to 20%, significantly enhancing translation accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, Lilt appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to propel growth and scale, emphasising its commitment to expanding its market presence and improving its services further.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$55m
SERIES C
May 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $91.9m
Company benefits
- Compensation: Meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
- Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months
- Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
Leadership
John DeNero
(Chief Scientist)Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley for 7 years and Senior Research Scientist at Google for 4 years.
Spence Green
(CEO)Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Assistant - Computer Science at Stanford University for 6 years and Fellow at XSeed Capital for 1 year.
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