Senior Software Engineer, WEKA
Platform, US
High performance data platform
Open for applications
High performance data platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To power the possibilities of the future by eradicating the compromises of the past.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a positive “can-do” attitude, a relentless curiosity about all things tech, and you thrive on pushing limits and breaking barriers, you’ll fit right in at Weka!
- Mastery of low-level C/C++ development in Linux user space or kernel space with vast experience in performance-sensitive code
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development on Linux-based systems
- Familiarity with network concepts and protocols (UDP, TCP, InfiniBand, Ethernet, RDMA)
Desirable
- Experience with DPDK and SPDK
- Knowledge of storage systems and SSDs
- Kernel driver development know-how
- Previous experience with hardware interfaces
- Prior involvement with deep networking (congestion control, bonding, VLAN, InfiniBand)
- Familiarity with storage concepts (SMB, NFS, S3, SSD, NVMe, Linux filesystems)
- Experience with the development of highly distributed systems
- Experience with memory management concepts and entities in a multiprocessing system (cache, shared memory, Numa, etc.)
- Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems, databases, or others
What the job involves
- As our new Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be joining the Platform group
- This group of highly experienced and detail-oriented engineers proudly owns the network stack, storage stack, task scheduling infrastructure, and more
- Play an active role in creating jaw-dropping designs, writing impressively efficient code, and conducting collaborative code reviews
- Share fresh ideas and architectural guidance for our core areas of distributed computing, high-performance storage, and cloud computing; and
- Challenge our benchmarks with performance testing around IO and storage throughput
Our take
Many studios and artists are struggling to get their products to market quickly enough, Often, the infrastructure they use is unintuitive and obstructs their work, instead of enhancing it. WEKA provides the Arch Platform, a machine learning/AI solution for managing cloud-based studios for content creation. It is already being used by major Hollywood studios and can take the post-production time from days to minutes.
The platform uses AWS to enable studios of any size to manage project permissions and access a virtual workstation, storage capabilities, and licensing servers. The company has brought everything together and offers support for both Windows and Linux, along with data encryption, backup and recovery, and cloud-bursting for companies that are taking off.
WEKA has a few notable competitors, such as RapidMiner which provides cloud storage and the ability to work on ETL processes, but has stood out thus far by being delivering the fastest file system on the market. The company has also raised considerable funding that will support its accelerated expansion, as well as launching a Sustainable AI Initiative that aims to draw attention to the rapid growth in global data center energy consumption and carbon emissions.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$140m
SERIES E
Nov 2022
$135m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415.1m
Company benefits
- Care package received upon hire: backpack, multiple shirts etc.
- 401(k)
- Stock options available
- Cellular phone plan coverage
- On and off-location meal perks
- Dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Work-related travel reimbursement
- Flexible spending account
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- A tech stack with Laptop or PC of choice, up to 2 monitors, office phone, headset
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Career development
- At least one offsite event per quarter with spontaneous office gatherings regularly
Company values
- Challenges - WEKA solves big problems for our customers, so we work on big projects.
- Innovation - We built the world’s fastest file system, so innovation is in our DNA.
- Team - We are aligned on a common vision and have a passion for winning. Individually we move boulders, as a team we move mountains.
Company HQ
Pruneyard / Dry Creek, Campbell, CA
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Leadership
Liran Zvibel
(CEO)Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Previously Software Engineer at InSightec for 1 year and Co-Founder & VP R&D at Fusic for 3 years.
Omri Palmon
(CSO)Earned a BSc and a MSc in Pure Math from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Product Manager at ECI Telecom for 2 years.
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