Staff Software Engineer, Snorkel AI
Backend
$245-265k
3 days a week in office
Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
Job no longer available
Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$245-265k
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to solve their most impactful problems through data-centric AI.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years experience in delivering distributed systems and services in a production setting for cloud-native applications
- Experience with distributed compute frameworks and data processing pipelines
- Ability to design and build efficient scalable data storage, compute, and retrieval systems for AI/ML tasks
- Strong communication and coding skills with emphasis on designing for scale and robustness
- Strong development and debugging skills
Desirable
- 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience with architecting and developing production web-scale systems (monitoring, telemetry, performance, reliability, triage and debug)
- Experience with concurrent programming and optimization
- Experience working with ML systems and foundation models (e.g. large language models)
- Experience owning delivery of large multi-person multi-quarter projects
- Experience developing enterprise software products for machine learning and/or data science applications
What the job involves
- You will be part of the backend team that is building a scalable and reliable system that empowers users to solve their most pressing needs in a data-centric AI world
- The team has a variety of technical backgrounds, from machine learning PhDs to full-stack engineers who are collaborating to help push the boundaries of frontier model development and performance
- You will be joining a fast-paced environment as a pragmatic, high-impact, product-focused engineer with the opportunity to shape the direction of the product, company, and the future of AI!
- Own the architecture, design, development, and operations of large-scale systems designed for AI/ML tasks including, data management systems, data engineering workflow systems, distributed compute systems, and end user experiences
- Strike a balance between building for the future and immediate impact
- You are obsessed with quality and correctness, and have a strong sense of ownership from design through production
- Be a proactive and creative problem solver, while charting a roadmap with changing sets of requirements
- Prototype, optimize, and maintain scalable back-end services that will power new ML and foundation model powered development workflows
- Keep CI/CD pipelines healthy and support customers in production via engaged on-call support
- Be an engaged team player in a customer-focused cross-functional environment where you will feel excited to take on whatever is most impactful for the company and product
- Excitement for mentorship is a plus!
Our take
Demand for AI is increasing in almost every industry, but the machine learning that fuels it is tedious to set up. In order to train machine learning algorithms, training data must be labelled manually, and this contributes to expenses in time, money and resources when integrating AI within a business.
Snorkel AI develops programmatic approaches to data labelling in order to automate the setup process of machine learning and decrease the required timeframe for a business to begin providing AI services. In addition to these automated data categorization services, the company also integrates data training, management, and analysis into a unified AI-deployment platform.
The complex computer science behind AI setup has resulted in many businesses without computer science backgrounds being left behind, and Snorkel AI has set this as their target audience. As of 2023, this customer base has tripled in size since Snorkel AI's founding and in 2024, enjoyed a new round of funding. With these promising developments, the company continues to innovate the sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $235m
Company benefits
- Home office allowance
- Yearly wellness stipend
- Healthy meals, snacks & drinks in office
- 401k with a 100% match up to 5% of annual salary
- Regular team events
- Generous paid parental leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Alex Ratner
(Co-founder & CEO)Studied at Harvard and received a PhD from Stanford. They are also an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
Paroma Varma
(Co-founder)They hold a PhD from Stanford and was VP of Corporate Relations at the Society of Women Engineers. They have collaborated with teams at Facebook and Intel.
Braden Hancock
(Co-founder & Head of Technology)They have a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and worked as a Research Assistant with the Air Force and MIT. They were also a Software Engineer at Google, and a Researcher at Facebook.
Henry Ehrenberg
(Co-Founder)They studied at Yale and Stanford and worked at Facebook as a Quantitative Engineering Intern and a Senior Applied Research Scientist.
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