Staff Software Engineer, Character.ai
Infrastructure
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience supporting the infrastructure of a software platform and/or application
- Expertise in distributed systems, service oriented architectures, networking and capacity planning
- Expertise in monitoring & alerting, scalable testing, automation, CI/CD frameworks and best practices
- Experience writing Terraform, Python and Golang code
- Experience with multi-cloud deployments such as GCP, Azure, AWS and Oracle
- Experience with running Kubernetes in production
- Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
Desirable
- Experience with a NoSQL and RDBMS databases
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design
- Experience with GPU/TPU deployments
- Experience with production AI/ML systems and services
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Character you'll help us scale the infrastructure for one of the fastest growing consumer products on the market today
- You will ensure the scalability, performance and reliability of our "runtime stack" which serves our application and AI inference platform
- You'll work closely with our development team to design and implement processes and systems that ensure the stability and availability of our service
- Contribute to architecting a service oriented architecture
- Monitor and optimize application performance within the deployment architecture
- Add, tune and maintain monitoring & alerting configurations
- Manage and continue to develop infrastructure as code
- Build tools to help deploy and test services
- Write code that improves scalability, performance, maintainability and security
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it needs to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company benefits
- Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
- 💰 We invest in your future with a generous 401(K) contribution
- 🍼 New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks
- 🌴 4 weeks of PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged
- 🍽️ Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend to help keep you fueled no matter where you are
- ✨ Monthly wellness stipend to support you in your health journey
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Karandeep Anand
(CEO)Previously Board Advisor at Character and Brex. Also worked as Vice President and Head of Business Products at Facebook and was a Partner Director at Microsoft.
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