Eventual · 5 months ago
Software Engineer, Systems
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$150K/yr - $250K/yr
3+ years expEventual Computing is a startup focused on revolutionizing data processing for AI applications. As a Software Engineer on the Systems team, you will design and implement key components of the Daft distributed data engine, optimizing workloads and improving resource utilization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDatabaseMachine LearningOpen Source
Responsibilities
Planning/Query Optimizer: intelligently optimize users’ workloads with modern database techniques
Execution Engine: improve memory stability through the use of streaming computation and more efficient data structures
Distributed Scheduler: improve Daft’s resource utilization, task scheduling and fault tolerance
Storage: improve Daft integrations with modern data lake technologies such as Apache Parquet, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake
Our goal is to build the world’s best open-source distributed query engine, becoming the leading framework for data engineering and analytics
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!
Qualification
Required
Strong foundation in systems programming
Experience with building distributed data systems or databases (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Ray, BigQuery, PostgreSQL etc)
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)
Ability to work well in small, focused teams with fast iterations and lots of autonomy
Passionate, intellectually curious and excited to build the next generation of distributed data technologies
Benefits
In-person tight knit team with 4x a week in office
Competitive comp and startup equity
Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
Commuter benefit
Team building events & poker nights
Health, vision, and dental coverage
Flexible PTO
Latest Apple equipment
401k plan with match!
Company
Eventual
Eventual makes processing images, video & audio as easy as SQL. Their platform helps AI companies handle petabytes of multimodal data.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
FelicisCRVAlumni Ventures
2025-06-24Series A· $20M
2024-10-01Seed· $7.5M
2022-10-04Seed
Leadership Team
Jay Chia
Co-Founder
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