Backend Engineer, Coactive
Streaming
$180-220k
+ Equity grants
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Visual data analytics platform
Job no longer available
Visual data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
+ Equity grants
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower data practitioners and data-driven teams to unlock insights in unstructured image and video data.
Role
Who you are
- We seek candidates with extensive experience in data engineering, distributed processing ecosystems like Spark and Kafka, and proficiency in programming languages like Python
- Knowledge of database internals, query optimizations, and a strong testing ethos are essential
- A proven track record with 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, building data pipelines, ETL, streaming data ingestion, distributed processing and databases with large datasets
- Experience in distributed processing ecosystems like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc
- Experience designing systems with event driven architecture/streams and message queues
- Proficiency in design of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and deploying scalable microservices
- Deep knowledge of database internals, query planning and optimizations
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to Python, Go or Java (we use Python)
- Experience working with NoSQL databases including but not limited to MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc and relational databases like Postgres, etc
- Strong testing ethos and knowledge of best practices, including code quality, accessibility, performance, and security
What the job involves
- This is an exceptional opportunity to work with one of Forbes' top 50 AI companies, backed by key investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures
- This position is truly a chance to be part of a category-defining team that is attracting top-tier talent interested in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI
- We are looking for a Backend Engineer to develop and maintain scalable streaming data pipelines and workflows
- Your role will involve integrating diverse data sources, transforming datasets for machine learning models, and ensuring efficient data processing
- Collaborating with backend engineers, ML engineers, and product teams, you'll optimize pipeline performance and uphold data quality standards
- You'll also provide expertise in best practices for ingestion frameworks and streaming pipeline development
- Monitoring and observability implementation will be key to maintaining high data quality
- Your work will shape our engineering practices and contribute to our growing company culture
- Design, develop and support resilient, scalable data pipelines and workflows that integrate various sources of structured and unstructured data
- Design and develop customizations and data wrangling needed to transform datasets in a way that is best suited for processing by our ML models
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers, ML engineers and product teams to assess pipeline performance and improve results as needed
- Provide guidance on best practices around ingestion frameworks and streaming pipelines development
- Implement monitoring and observability to ensure data quality and efficient data processing
- Shape engineering best practices and company culture as we grow
Our take
Coactive AI is on a mission to help humans and machines work together by empowering data practitioners and data-driven teams to unlock insights in unstructured image and video data.
The company is ahead of the curve with its focus on visual data, which is becoming increasingly part of everyday life, now occupying well over 75% of all Internet traffic. Coactive AI makes this data useful by bringing it into the world of Structured Query Language (SQL), providing information from visual data that can inform business decisions.
Though only founded in 2021, Coactive AI's founding team has experience working with the first generation of modern machine learning systems at Google, Facebook, Pinterest and eBay. The company has secured impressive funds to expand operations, development efforts, and business reach.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$10.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.4m
Company benefits
- 100% Insurance Coverage: Get life, AD&D, long-term, and short-term disability insurance, fully covered by the employer.
- Healthcare Packages: We provide medical, dental, and vision plans, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care.
- Company Equity: Join us and benefit from our success through stock options.
- Commuter Benefits: Receive subsidies for your daily commute, including public transit and parking expenses.
- Retirement Savings: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, offering both pre-tax and post-tax options.
- Inclusive Parental Leave: Offering leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoption and foster care.
- Unlimited PTO: Take time off when you need it, with a flexible vacation policy tailored to your needs.
- One Coactive: Time together focused on team building, collaborating, a hackathon, and many more engaging activities.
- Company-wide holidays: Enjoy scheduled holidays where the entire company takes a break together to rejuvenate.
- Referral program: Earn rewards for referring talented candidates who join our team.
- Meal perks: Enjoy lunches to keep you fueled throughout the workday.
Company HQ
Horace Mann, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Cody Coleman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as a Founding Member for MLCommons, Founding Partner for MLPerf, and as an Intern for Facebook.
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