Founding engineer for Stealth Startup - India - Peak XV Partners

    Peak XV Partners
    Peak XV Partners India

    2 weeks ago

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    About us

    We are a Peak XV (formerly known as Sequoia SEA & India) backed stealth startup working on building the next generation Platform as a Service (PaaS) for developing and deploying AI/ML applications. As an API-first PaaS focused on AI, our mission is to enable every developer, data scientist, and organization to leverage and build AI applications with ease. Simply put, we help developers and companies bring their innovative application ideas to life by providing all the necessary resources for building, training, inference-hosting, testing, and launching them. This includes orchestration of computing, storage, and GPUs; a library of pre-made components; training tools to educate the applications; and performance enhancement tools.

    We're just getting started and are looking to expand our team. Our backend primarily uses Python and Go, but talented developers familiar with other languages such as Rust are also welcome to apply.

    If you looking for working at mix of deep tech, artificial intelligence and consumer facing product, we are the right place for you, because with us, you will not only learn how to build high performing web application, but also understand the internals of operating systems, bare-metal servers and as well as machine learning frameworks and building and running large scale AI models.

    What will you do?

    • Work on orchestration backend platform leveraging terraform, python and ansible.
    • Work on backend for scheduling, training and hosting models for inferences
    • Work closely with our design partners to understand their needs and incorporate those in our software.
    • Work on automation for bare-metal servers
    • Contribute to open source projects adjacent for automation, security and networking. such as open telemetry, terraform, docker, lxc, wireguard.

    Qualifications

    • Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
    • 3-6 years of experience
    • In the absence of a degree, we also consider candidates with proven proficiency in backend programming, especially in Python and Go, and contribution to open source projects

    Experience with the following is a plus:

    • Docker, containerisation, virtualization, and/or microservice architecture
    • Creating distributed, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems
    • Working with public clouds such as AWS
    • Automation tools like Terraform, Ansible
    • Postgres or RDBMS databases
    • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
    • Machine learning pipelines
    • Linux, Linux-Kernel, Drivers and performance tuning

    Note: You don't need to meet all the qualifications, but what's crucial is your willingness to learn and spend a significant amount of time writing code (this is an IC, not a managerial role).