Staff Software Engineer, Anyscale
Ray Core
$240-270k
Offers equity
3+ days a week in office
Scalable compute for AI and Python
Be an early applicant
Scalable compute for AI and Python
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-270k
Offers equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scalable computing effortless.
Role
Who you are
- 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 outcome in production
- 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
- Strong understanding of systems concepts such as multithreading/concurrency, distributed coordination, resource management, fault tolerance, performance, or networking
- Experience building foundational systems such as databases, streaming systems, distributed runtimes, operating systems, schedulers, storage systems, Spark, Kafka, or similar infrastructure is highly relevant
- A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of the teams around you
- Nice to have: Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects
What the job involves
- 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
- Stay hands-on with implementation and debugging in a systems-oriented codebase, while raising the technical bar for the engineers around you
- Help shape the longer-term architecture and evolution of Ray Core as our workloads and scale continue to grow
Our take
Anyscale operates at the heart of the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market, where organizations increasingly need systems built to handle large-scale, multimodal, and compiled AI workloads. Founded by the original creators of Ray - an open-source distributed computing framework powering companies like Netflix, Uber, and OpenAI - Anyscale was built to overcome the "AI complexity wall" that legacy compute can't handle. And its providing an AI-native platform that can scale seamlessly from as ingle machine to thousands of GPUs.
The company's impact comes from making distributed AI development faster, easier, and far more efficient. By pairing Ray's flexible compute framework with managed clusters, advanced developer tooling, and performance optimization, Anyscale removes the operational burden of scaling AI. Companies like Canva, Recursion, and RunwayML have seen dramatic gains in utilization, speed and cost. So it's fair to say Anyscale has helped teams deliver AI applications faster and with greater reliability.
The company recently strengthened its position through major partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud, bringing AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments. New capabilities like RayTurbo, Kubernetes-native deployment, and first-party managed Ray services make it easier than ever to run high-performance AI at scale. With model sizes and multimodal workloads growing rapidly, Anyscale is in a good position to remain a foundational platform for organizations building the next generation of AI systems.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
133% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$99m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $259.6m
Company benefits
- Health, Vision, and Dental Care: We offer a wide range of health, dental, and vision coverage options for you and your family—including many plans that are 99% covered by Anyscale
- Fertility Benefits & Paid Parental Leave: Anyscalers can access fertility benefits through Kindbody. Team members can take advantage of 12 weeks of paid leave following the arrival of a new little one.
- Flexible Time Off: We believe all team members should be able to rest up and recharge when needed, which is why we’ve embraced a flexible time off policy at Anyscale.
- Learning & Wellness Stipend: We believe in investing in our #1 asset: our people. We offer a monthly learning and wellness stipend so employees can better themselves at work or pursue personal interests.
- In-Office Meals: Lunch is served everyday in our San Francisco and Palo Alto Offices. Dinner, too, if you’re ever working late. And did we mention boba runs?
- Commute Reimbursement: Whether you’re hopping on public transit or driving yourself to work, Anyscale covers a portion of your commuting costs each month.
- Paid Volunteer Time Off: Give back to the causes and communities you love with paid time off specifically for volunteer work.
- Mental Health Benefits: All Anyscalers can take advantage of included mental health benefits through our Headspace offering.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Phillip Moritz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Phillip graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a PhD in Computer Science.
Keerti Melkote
(CEO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Keerti spent 5 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise at the President of Intelligent Edge. They also co-founded Aruba Networks where they spent nearly 20 years in roles including CTO and CEO.
Jooree Na
(CFO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Jooree spent over 5 years at Confluent, joining as a Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting before working through different roles and becoming the VP of Finance.
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