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Principal + Staff Software Engineers

2 months, 3 weeks ago
Anywhere
Full-time
Lead
Technical Lead
Software Development
Generative AI Kubernetes LLM PostgreSQL Python
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Unstructured

Unstructured

Unstructured transforms natural language data for AI by providing open source tools for easy preprocessing and connection to large language models.

IT Services
1-10
Founded 2022
$25M raised
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Description

  • Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for the data transformation and retrieval platform.
  • Build and scale distributed systems that process large volumes of unstructured data across many formats and sources.
  • Own Kubernetes orchestration, cluster design, performance tuning, and reliability across the company.
  • Lead Python architecture and best practices to improve performance, modularity, and maintainability across services.
  • Design and optimize Postgres schemas, queries, indexing strategies, and transaction handling for large-scale pipelines.
  • Mentor senior engineers through design reviews and code guidance to raise technical standards across the organization.
  • Partner with infrastructure and product teams to turn research prototypes into production-grade systems.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and open-source tools for LLM infrastructure, retrieval, and orchestration.
  • Guide technical direction across the platform, ensuring systems are performant, resilient, and ready for AI workloads.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, infrastructure, or data architecture.
  • Expert-level Python experience, including building frameworks and performance-critical services from scratch.
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise, including designing, deploying, debugging, and productionizing systems at scale.
  • Strong Postgres knowledge, including query planning, partitioning, indexing, and high-throughput tuning.
  • Experience with high-performance data or AI/ML systems, especially retrieval pipelines, embeddings, or hybrid workloads.
  • Ability to lead design reviews and shape system architecture with strong technical judgment.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where depth and ownership matter.
  • Preferred: experience building or scaling LLM-powered or RAG systems in production.
  • Preferred: familiarity with open-source orchestration frameworks, vector databases, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
  • Preferred: contributions to open-source projects in Python, Kubernetes, or distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability insurance.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Flexible parental leave.
  • 401(k) options.
  • Competitive referral incentives.
  • Company offsites and best-in-tech swag.
  • Tools and support needed to do your best work, wherever you are based.

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