Backend Engineer, Weaviate
Product
Open-source vector search engine
Job no longer available
Open-source vector search engine
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create open source, AI-first infrastructure for the next wave of software development.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years as a Engineer; ideally in a data analytics centric product development role
- 4+ years of experience with Golang or Rust
- Strong experience working with observability tools: specifically Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and pprof
- Bachelors (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science, or related discipline
- Passion for disambiguating the signal from the noise
- Demonstrable skills to successfully work across teams & timezones
- You are aligned with our company values
What the job involves
- In this role, you will build and maintain backend systems, instrument metrics across products, and collaborate with teams to provide insights into feature usage and drive impactful product decisions
- To get insights about how your product is used, you need to collect metrics and ensure the data is triaged, disambiguated and otherwise mangled before you can gather insights
- You will be responsible for adding instrumentation across our product portfolios, from our Core Vector database through to our Console, Documentation etc
- This will require working across a number of teams, contributing pull-request to a number of repositories to ensure that metrics can be emitted and consumed by the downstream users of the data
- Working directly with the product organization, you will help ensure that hypothesis can be turned into questions that can be answered from the metrics collected
- Additionally, you will leverage your experience in building and maintaining backend systems, ensuring robust and scalable solutions
- Building, evaluating and prioritizing data stories
- Collaborate with the product team to provide insights into which features are most frequently used and impactful
- Building and maintaining backend systems on the database team
- Working cross functionally with engineering to implement changes to the products
- Working with BI Engineering to downstream the data for consumption
- Participating in engineering scrums
Our take
Vector search, powered by machine learning, is able to capture the context of unstructured data, and find similar data using approximate nearing neighbour algorithms. Weaviate, founded in 2019, is an open-source vector search engine. With it, users can index billions of data objects to search through, and find the right results quicker and more effectively.
Weaviate delivers high-speed similarity search over raw vectors or data objects. Its hybrid search allows users to combine keyword-based search with vector search, and its generative search enabled them to combine generative models with their data. A handful of companies are beginning to deliver vector search, but Weaviate’s open-source-first attitude and pay-as-you-grow offerings are what makes it stand out.
Previously known as SeMi Technologies, Weaviate has seen significant interest and investment. The company has said that funds received will help it work towards making Weaviate the standard in open-source vector search, allowing it to expand its teams, user community, and list of partners, as well as refining its ML models and modules.
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Company
Company benefits
- Work equipment - This includes a shiny new MacBook and a budget for (upgrading) your home or digital office
- Flexible remote work - This includes working from anywhere, decide which work rhythm and balance works for you, and you have flexibility when taking time off
- Company trips - With a global distributed team, we can treat ourselves to meet each other in person in the most beautiful places e.g. Italy
Company values
- Be Kind: Our people make working at Weaviate a joy. Their kindness is the magic, which contributes to our success
- Work together as one: We combine our different perspectives and support each other to move forward
- Strive for excellence: We surpass expectations and do what's best for our customers and our community
- Encourage transparency: Be transparent - by default. We share our knowledge and expertise with our colleagues and community
- Inspire trust: We explore new technologies and the world around us. As optimists, we expect the best in people
Company HQ
Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Bob van Luijt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Chairman of the Creative Software Foundation. Founded Kubrickology Innovations.
Etienne Dilocker
(Co-Founder & CTO)Managing Dirctor of Dilocker Software Engineering & Consulting.
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