Eventual
Data Warehouse for Computer Vision
Distributed Data Systems Founding Engineer
About the role
Key Responsibilities
As a Distributed Data Systems Engineer, you will be a founding member of the Eventual team with primary responsibilities around architecting, optimizing and building features for Daft (https://www.getdaft.io/).
Some projects that you can expect to work on include:
- Advanced query optimization techniques to optimize Daft’s distributed execution plans
- Building out the fastest optimized I/O for cloud storage systems in Rust
- Code generation to translate high level Daft Dataframe query plans into instructions that can run on various backends including Spark, Ray, and the Eventual Cloud
- Building systems to optimize workload scheduling for maximal resource utilization
We are a young startup - so be prepared to wear many hats such as tinkering with infrastructure, talking to customers and participating heavily in the core design process of our product!
What we look for
We are looking for a candidate with a strong foundation in systems programming and ideally experience with building distributed data systems or databases (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Ray, BigQuery, PostgreSQL etc)
Our ideal candidate has:
- 3+ years of experience working with distributed data systems (query planning, optimizations, workload pipelining, scheduling, networking, fault tolerance etc)
- Strong fundamentals in systems programming (e.g. C++, Rust, C) and Linux
- Familiarity and experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS S3 etc)
Most importantly, we are looking for someone who works well in small, focused teams with fast iterations and lots of autonomy. If you are passionate, intellectually curious and excited to build the next generation of distributed data technologies, we want you on the team!
Benefits and Remote Work
We are believers in both having the flexibility of remote work but also the importance of in-person work, especially at the earliest stages of a startup. We have a flexible hybrid approach to in-person work with at least 3 days of in-person work typically from Monday - Wednesday at our office in San Francisco.
We believe in providing employees with best-in-class compensation and benefits including meal allowances, comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision and more.
About the interview
15-minute phone screen
A short phone screen over video call with one of our cofounders (either Sammy or Jay) for us to get acquainted, understand your aspirations and evaluate if there is a good fit in terms of the type of role you are looking for.
Technical phone screen (45 minutes)
A technical phone screen question over video call to understand your technical abilities.
Technical interview panel with the team (2 hours)
Technical interviews with the rest of the Eventual team with questions to further understand your technical strengths, weaknesses and experiences.
60-minute systems design interview
A technical interview to understand your familiarity with building and scaling applications.
60-minute systems programming interview
A technical interview to understand your familiarity with lower-level programming concepts.
Get to know us
As many chats as necessary to get to know us - come have a coffee with our cofounders and existing employees to understand who we are and our goals, motivations and ambitions.
We look forward to meeting you!
About Eventual
Eventual: The Data Warehouse for Computer Vision
Eventual is building an integrated development experience for data scientists and engineers to query, process and build applications on Complex Data (non-tabular data such as images, video, audio and 3D scans).
Daft
Daft (https://www.getdaft.io) is our open-sourced Python dataframe API for working with Complex Data. With Daft, users can query and transform their data interactively in a notebook environment, running workloads such as analytics, data preprocessing and machine learning model training/inference. The same transformations that are performed on the dataframe can then be deployed as a HTTP service to respond to incoming requests, helping our users go from experimentation to productionization faster than ever before.
Eventual Cloud Platform
The Eventual Cloud Platform provides an integrated development environment for our users to go from local development to production. We provide:
Notebooks for interactive data science with Daft Fully-managed cluster computing infrastructure to run large distributed Daft workloads Application deployment as services or automated jobs
About Us
Eventual (YC W22) is funded by investors such as Caffeinated Capital, Array.vc and top angels in the valley from Databricks, Meta and Lyft. Our team has deep expertise in high performance computing, big data technologies, cloud infrastructure and machine learning.
