Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Encord

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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Company Description: Encord - Series B AI infrastructure startup backed by CRV and Y Combinator

Job Description:
Join a high-performing team building the essential infrastructure for multi-modal AI. You will develop performant, reliable systems to index and curate billions of data items, enabling customers to deploy production-ready machine learning models. This role offers high autonomy to solve complex data challenges using a modern stack including Python, Rust, and Clickhouse.

Location: London, UK

Why this role is remarkable:

• Work at the frontier of multi-modal AI with a team of veterans and ex-founders backed by $30M in Series B funding from top-tier investors like CRV and Y Combinator.
• Own mission-critical infrastructure projects end-to-end, from architectural design to deployment, directly impacting the trajectory of a hyper-growth startup.
• Tackle immense scale challenges involving billions of data points while maintaining a culture that prizes simplicity, high trust, and technical excellence.

What you will do:

• Architect and scale backend systems using Python and Rust to handle massive volumes of unstructured and structured data for global enterprise customers.
• Optimize data persistence and retrieval layers leveraging PostgreSQL and column-oriented systems like Clickhouse to ensure lightning-fast query performance at scale.
• Take full ownership of the development lifecycle, including monitoring and measuring user impact, while collaborating within a lean, high-autonomy engineering group.

The ideal candidate:

• Proven experience building and maintaining high-performance distributed systems from scratch with a deep understanding of reliability and performance trade-offs.
• Strong technical proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL) and analytics engines (Clickhouse), with an interest in working across Python, Rust, and Kubernetes.
• A builder mindset with the ability to thrive in uncertain environments, solve problems from first principles, and effectively level up the engineers around them.

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