Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Real-Time Pipelines (Remote)

Staff Software Engineer – Data Infrastructure / Real‑Time Pipelines / Cloud / GPUs (Remote)

Location: Remote (US)

Base: $170k–$185k + significant equity

Type: Senior IC (no people management)

Quick overview

Well‑funded Series A climate/AI startup, ~10–11th hire.

You’ll own the data + compute backbone behind an AI Earth System for weather/climate.

• Small, senior, horizontal team (no middle management).
• Deeply hands‑on role: design, build, and run production systems.
• Mission‑driven + strong open‑science ethos.

Why join?

Founding‑level impact

• Shape core data architecture, reliability standards, and engineering culture.

Serious technical problems

• Bursty GPU workloads (tens–hundreds of GPUs, short jobs).
• Latency‑sensitive, high‑throughput pipelines.
• Petabyte‑scale earth/weather data.

Mission + open science

• Backed by top climate investors; dual mandate of commercial success and releasing models/datasets to the community.

Comp & benefits

• Base: $170k–$185k
• Early‑employee equity on par with rest of the early team
• Fully remote (US), flexible hours
• Unlimited PTO (encouraged)
• Stipend targeted to cover medical/dental for you + family
• 2x fully‑funded in‑person offsites per year

What you’ll do

Build data ingestion & pipelines

• High‑throughput ingest for real‑time & batch data (models, satellite, radar, reanalysis, obs).
• Turn messy external feeds into analysis‑ready, cloud‑optimized datasets.

Design bursty GPU & low‑latency workflows

• Architect systems that can spin up large GPU fleets briefly, then scale back down.
• Keep end‑to‑end latency low and costs sane.
• Productionize inference and evaluation with research/ML teams.

Own cloud‑native systems

• Make pragmatic choices across AWS/GCP, Modal/serverless, containers, batch.
• Own monitoring, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, and failure‑mode thinking.

Enable the rest of the team

• Build tools/abstractions so researchers and data scientists can run large workflows safely.

This is not: a people‑management role or a pure ML‑research role. It is a deep systems/data infrastructure role for someone who wants to stay in the trenches as a senior IC.

Must‑have experience

• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability.

Senior / Staff‑level IC

• Typically 7+ years as a hands‑on SWE or data/infra engineer.
• You’ve taken systems from idea → design → production → operations.

Real‑time / large‑scale data

• Built and run high‑throughput, low‑latency pipelines or big batch systems.
• Designed for reliability, observability, and cost at scale.

Python in production

• Strong modern Python for data/infra.
• Comfortable turning prototypes into robust, maintainable services.

Cloud‑native (AWS and/or GCP)

• Deep experience with managed services to build scalable, resilient systems.
• Containers + serverless/batch environments (Docker, K8s, Modal or similar).

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Workflow orchestration

• Designed and operated complex workflows in Airflow / Dagster / Prefect or similar.

High autonomy

• You can ramp quickly on a complex domain.
• You’re comfortable in a small, distributed, senior team with little hand‑holding.

Great‑to‑have (not required)

Domain‑relevant large data

• Weather, climate, environmental, satellite, radar, or geospatial data.
• Formats like GRIB, NetCDF, Zarr, Parquet, etc.

Earth system / NWP exposure

• Worked near numerical weather prediction or large scientific models.

GPU / HPC‑style workloads

• Operating GPU‑accelerated or large batch compute (HPC, Slurm, Ray, K8s, Modal).

Research / open‑science environments

• Translating research code into robust production systems (academia, labs, open‑source).

Early‑stage startup experience

• Wearing multiple hats, making pragmatic trade‑offs, and shipping under uncertainty.

How to apply

If you’re a systems‑minded senior engineer who likes owning real‑world data and compute problems end‑to‑end - and you’re happy to keep building infrastructure instead of chasing “ML Engineer” titles - please apply with your resume via this site.

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Disclaimer

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