Principal Software Engineer, Redis
AI Team
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Real-time cloud-based data platform
Job no longer available
Real-time cloud-based data platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity Grants
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To give innovators and entrepreneurs the data insights to achieve their business goals.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience with designing and developing database, storage, or high-performance distributed systems
- Experience with AI, indexing/querying, big data, distributed systems, or storage systems
- Proficiency in at least one system language (C, C++, Rust, etc)
- Self-directed, ambitious, and eager to learn new skills and technologies
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Related Field
- Experience with high-performance multithreaded code
- Experience with Redis
Desirable
- Object Oriented expertise
- Read research papers for fun
What the job involves
- You will join the core Redis search team to extend our Vector and Search offering
- You will take part of the entire development cycle from research to design, implementation, and release to production
- You will work on complex problems related to indexing and querying, at the largest scale, influencing millions of developers worldwide
- This is a unique opportunity to extend Redis capabilities to the AI age early in the cycle
- Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for Redis vector search
- Optimize core algorithms for speed and resource consumption
- Investigate complex real-world issues at Internet scale
- Implement hardware-specific optimizations (e.g.: SIMD, SSD, GPU, CUDA)
- Collaborate across teams. Work closely with the broader engineer team, Support, DevOps, leading the fastest NoSQL databases in the world
Our take
Businesses have increasingly been taking advantage of AI systems to process the vast amont of data they hold and produce, but the rapidity and sheer volume of AI data requests puts a significant load on company infrastructure. Redis, a database-as-a-service provider, exists to ease this strain, managing databases for business-critical applications with its cloud-based data platform.
This isn't a new industry and Redis faces competition from mainstays of the sector such as Oracle and Microsoft. However Redis stands out with its speed, cutting the database response time to less than a millisecond, easily outstripping its competitors. Founded in 2011, it is now the most popular database on AWS and is used by around 25% of professional developers. It counts Microsoft, Plaid, FedEx and many other enterprise companies as customers.
Redis plans to expand into emerging markets and sees the adoption of cloud-native systems by the world's biggest companies as inevitable. It has forged partnerships with Amazon and Google and is growing through acquisition, for instance in its 2022 purchase of RESP.app which served part of its growing ecosystem.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2021
$110m
SERIES G
Aug 2020
$100m
SERIES F
Total funding: $357.3m
Company benefits
- Unlimited time off to promote a healthy work-life balance
- H/D/V coverage along with 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits
- Frequent team celebrations and recreation events
- Lunch stipends
- Home internet reimbursement
- Yearly health and wellness budget for a healthy mind and body
- Learning and development opportunities
- Ability to influence a high-performance company on its way to IPO
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Yiftach Shoolman
(President)They were the founder, president and CTO of Crescendo Networks (acquired by F5), the vice president of software development at Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel) and part of the founding team at ECI Telecom broadband division.
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