Software Engineer, Samaya
Cloud & Security
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
AI-powered knowledge discovery platform
Job no longer available
AI-powered knowledge discovery platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a future where expert intelligence AI transforms global knowledge work — making it faster, deeper, and more impactful.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Principal level Software Engineer with a focus on cloud infrastructure and security to join our team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience with software development with a primary focus on managing cloud-based services and infrastructure
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure
- Practical experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong background in Kubernetes orchestration
- Experience with GPU orchestration and optimization
- Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
- Demonstrated experience with continuously monitoring and improving security posture
- Deep understanding of CI/CD methodologies
- Passion for technology, with a continuous learning mindset
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be a critical player ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our AI-driven platform
- You'll be directly contributing to the evolution of our infrastructure, ensuring it’s resilience, efficiency, and readiness to meet the challenges of scale
- Engage in the design, management, and enhancement of our production environments through Terraform, adopting best practices to ensure infrastructure consistency and high standards. This involves implementing performance baselines, establishing efficient delivery pipelines, and maintaining robust production health and security posture
- Elevate system security and compliance, alongside optimizing private network configurations, by providing technical leadership within collaborative, cross-functional teams. This effort aligns with building and implementing impactful solutions that foster engineering excellence
- Lead on CI/CD processes, enhancing deployment cycles to boost team velocity and confidence
- Contribute to the collaborative effort of deploying new features and services, troubleshooting, and resolving infrastructure-related issues
- Explore, prototype, and productionize advanced infrastructure solutions, such as Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), to further enhance our platform's capabilities. This involves actively seeking out new technologies and methodologies that can be integrated into our existing systems to drive continuous innovation and improvement
- Your first 3 months:
- You have a strong grasp of Samaya infrastructure, architecture, performance concerns, SDLC and practices. You have proactively identified and delivered improvements to these as well as to our efficiency and effectiveness as a team
- You have assessed our platform’s security and compliance posture and you have identified gaps with a prioritized action plan, and you have actively contributed to initiatives such as introducing VPC and SOC2 compliance
- You are finding opportunities to learn, mentor and promote best practices in areas of your expertise. Your colleagues count on you for your technical advice
Our take
Samaya supplies an AI-powered platform for search, summarisation and knowledge discovery, designed to enable faster and more informed decisions. The company leverages advancements in Large Language Models to answer more complex questions than alternate discovery options.
Built for domain experts, Samaya boasts the ability to uncover insights even from large and knowledge-intensive document sets. This empowers the product with a wealth of applications that appeals to many industries or businesses. For example, in the finance sector it can help automate investment research, client advisory and deal diligence.
The company has raised good funds to support accelerated product development and the broadening of its market reach. It also reports 100% month-on-month usage increases and an impressive client list includes the likes of Morgan Stanley.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2025
$43.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.5m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision and short-term disability
- Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing, with 401k (US) and enhanced pension (UK)
- Rest: The ability to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO
- Flexibility: A hybrid work environment (typically, team members spend a minimum of two days in the officer per week)
- Travel: Travel to other locations is encourage to foster team cohesion and maintain Samaya's unique culture
- Equipment: Equipment allowance to create your ideal work setup
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Maithra Raghu
(Founder & CEO)Former Research Scientist on Google Brain at Google. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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