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iterative.ai · 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer (DevTools, Python)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

Iterative is a company focused on building open-source tools for machine learning and enterprise-grade data infrastructure solutions. The Staff Software Engineer will participate and lead efforts around the development of the DVC product, requiring strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python, and excellent collaboration with both internal teams and the user community.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData IntegrationMachine Learning

Responsibilities

Discuss, research & lead issues, features, and even products

Be 100% hands on, be able to drive large changes, hold brainstoring and architecture discussions and put technical spec in place for other members to collaborate and follow on

Write (lots of) code (see some PR examples)

Write docs for your code (see this repo)

Write blog posts and public updates about features and engineering challenges - participate in the product work lifecycle

Work directly with management and founders and help translate our vision into a working, delightful functionality

Be actively involved in the community - Support: talk to users on Github, Discord, forum, Understand their workflows: work with users, customers, product. Be able to demo and mock user projects and understand the hardships of ML and data-centric workflows

Qualification

PythonOpen source contributionsDev-tools developmentMachine LearningSystem programmingAgile experienceCommunication

Required

Strong Python experience is required

Experience building dev-tools and maintaining open source software

Motivation and interest - devtools space, Machine Learning and Data science space, Python ecosystem, storage and data systems

Remote work self-discipline

Excellent communication skills - clear, constructive, and respectful dialog with other team members, community and leadership. This includes (but not limited to) - written communication in form of technical discussions in various systems. We feel most at home on: Github, Slack, and Notion

Ability to manage your time, define, spec-out and deliver large tasks and features. contribute and co-own team and product planning, respect deadlines business priorities (demos, customers, conventions, and other milestones), etc

Experience working remotely in Agile and dynamic teams

Open source contributions and experience in maintaining projects (OSS)

System programming experience - kernel-level, virtualization, databases, filesystems, etc

Preferred

Some Machine Learning or Data Science experience - this is so you can easily identify and replicate user issues and workflows

Benefits

Unlimited PTO and sick days!

Great health coverage (medical, dental, vision) for you and your family, 100% paid by us (US only, but can discuss and reimburse, adjust the salary in other locations).

401K with 100% match up to 4% of annual salary (US only, but we give the best we can worldwide through reimbursements and hiring platforms).

Participate in conventions and conferences (PyCon, PyData, O'Reilly AI, etc) - We encourage and support everyone in giving talks, writing blog-posts, and other activities.