Phaidra
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorSoftwareEngineer(DataPlatform)
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“Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform) at Phaidra. Skills: Data Platform architecture, distributed systems design, data ingestion and processing, API development, system scaling, multi-tenancy, operational excellence. Building streaming and batch components for real-time and historical data ingestion and processing. Building and optimizing the data and feature stores”
What You'll Achieve.
enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time; achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo; reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%; scaling those systems and the processes around them to meet that growth; multi-tenancy and self-serve tooling as core priorities; meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence
Industry & Context.
AI; reinforcement learning; analytical skills
on-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed or data-intensive systems, experience designing and implementing distributed systems for data ingestion, storage, and processing, Proven expertise building, operating, and monitoring large-scale multi-tenant systems while accounting for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance, Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling, Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting, Approach your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency, directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy
Nice to Have
Experience with latest batch functional, customer immersion, and development training
What You'll Do.
Building streaming and batch components for real-time and historical data ingestion and processing
Building and optimizing the data and feature stores
Building high-throughput and highly available APIs used throughout the organization
Building the central orchestration and metadata layer
along with the APIs of the core Platform
Design and build scalable components for the data platform that enable high-throughput data ingestion and processing
Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics
Contribute to the design and implementation of API services and scalable event-driven applications that power the product backend
extensible software interfaces for internal consumers and maintain a high release-quality bar
Design and optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for high throughput
Own and operate your services in production
and on-call rotations
meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers, and TPMs across teams; Mentor your peers and be a technical role model on the team; collaboration; asynchronous communication; documentation-first culture
Communication Scope
communicate effectively in an all-remote setting; directness
Full Job Description
About Phaidra Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation. The world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades. Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically: We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions. We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning. We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i. e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them. Our team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact. Phaidra’s ability to achieve its mission is determined by our ability to work together — as defined by our core values: Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy. We seek individuals who embody these values, as they are instrumental in ensuring our team consistently delivers excellence and fosters an engaging and supportive culture Phaidra is based in the USA, but we are 100% remote with no physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, U
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