\nPython Software Engineer, Boulder, Colorado, United States OR Remote within U.S. for well qualified candidates \n\n \n\nAbout Ascend \n\nAscend Analytics is an innovative climate technology software and consulting company focused on energy analytics to support an increasingly complex power grid. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions for an array of key energy market stakeholders, from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend recently announced a strategic growth investment from prominent software and climate technology investors Rubicon Technology Partners, a private equity firm which is focused on investing in and growing software companies, Galvanize Climate Solutions, which invests in companies and solutions advancing the energy transition, and Silversmith Capital Partners, a technology-focused growth equity firm. Read more about how the investment will accelerate Ascend’s product innovation here.  To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com. \n\nYour Impact at Ascend Analytics \n\nAs a Back-End Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. \n\nJob Responsibilities \n\n\nDesign and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript) \n\nRefactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability \n\nDevelop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts \n\nImplement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale \n\nWork with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software \n\nCommunicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders \n\nMentor and guide junior engineers \n\nContribute to scoping and design discussions \n\nThis position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning. \n\n\n\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems \n\n5+ years as a back-end software engineer \n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n\nDemonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design \n\nFamiliarity with data processing in Python (including Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, Scikit-Learn) is strongly preferred \n\nExperience designing and developing full-stack applications and RESTful web services \n\nFamiliarity or exposure to cloud computing platforms and ecosystems, e.g., Azure, AWS, and containerization, e.g., Docker \n\nData Science, including statistics, machine learning, and data visualization \n\nReferential databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL \n\nAbility to communicate with impact and confidence, both orally and in writing \n\nStrong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic \n\nKnowledge of wholesale electricity markets; passion for renewables and storage \n\nExperience with code review, architecture, development, and promotion processes \n\n\n\n\nCompensation: $100,000 - $150,000            \n\nNegotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. \n\nWe offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.  \n\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   \n\nAscend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Design, Cloud, Junior, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBoulder, Colorado, United States

About Phaidra\n\nPhaidra is building the future of industrial automation.\n\nThe 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.\n\nPhaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:\n\n\n* We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.\n\n* We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning.\n\n* 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.\n\n\n\n\nOur 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.\n\nPhaidra is based in the USA but 100% remote; we do not have a physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Norway, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and India.\n\n**Please only apply to one opening. If you are a better fit for another opening, our team will move your application. Candidates who apply to multiple openings will not be considered.**\nWho You Are\n\nWe are looking for a very experienced Software Engineer with a focus on MLOps tech leadership to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n\n* We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK/EU\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as a very experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 10+ years of work experience.\n\n* Proven record on impact as a Tech Leader and bar-raiser for ambitious Software Engineering teams\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Extensive experience with platform Software Engineering with the ability to contribute on all levels as an individual contributor and tech leader\n\n* Strong expertise on building, operating and monitoring large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and metrics collection\n\n* Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Very good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, as well as in hybrid or on-prem environment\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning or other in-depth knowledge on modern ML applications\n\n* Experience with industrial applications, industrial control systems, IoT, sensor time series applications, or similar\n\n\n\nRelevant Technologies from our Stack\n\n\n* Python, Go\n\n* PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning\n\n* Ray.io, Prefect, mlflow\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Grafana Cloud, Prometheus\n\n* Poetry, Pants\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* \n\nMeeting with Operations (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, discuss what you are looking for in a new position and cover formalities around your application.\n\n\n* \n\nTech Lead interview (60 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. We will cover your technical experience and the skills as an engineer and a tech lead while discussing projects that you have worked on in the past. You will meet the manager for the role as well as our VP of Engineering, with the opportunity to ask any questions about the team, role and engineering at Phaidra.\n\n\n* \n\nML system design & SRE (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring\n\n\n* \n\nML interview (60 minutes): This interview will focus on Machine Learning approaches, algorithms and theory. You will be asked about ML algorithms you are familiar with, how they work under the hood and how to use them in an applied setting.\n\n\n* \n\nCulture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values and the mutual cultural fit.\n\n\n\nBase Salary\n\n\n* US Residents: $156,000-$234,000/year\n\n* UK Residents: £108,000-£162,000/year\n\n\n\n\nSalary ranges for EU countries will vary based on the market rate for the location.\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation.\nBenefits & Perks\n\n\n* Fast-paced and team-oriented environment where you will be instrumental in the direction of the company.\n\n* Phaidra is a 100% remote company with a digital nomad policy.\n\n* Competitive compensation & equity.\n\n* Outsized responsibilities & professional development.\n\n* Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.\n\n* Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Unlimited paid time off, with a minimum of 20 days off per year requirement.\n\n* Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Home office setup allowance and company MacBook.\n\n* Monthly remote work stipend.\n\n\n\nOn being Remote\n\nWe are thoughtful about remote collaboration. We look to the pioneers - like Gitlab - for inspiration and best practices to create a stellar remote work environment. We have a documentation-first culture and actively practice asynchronous communication in everything we do. Our team stays connected through tools like Slack and video chat. Most teams meet daily, and we have dedicated all-hands meetings bi-weekly to build strong relationships. We hold virtual team building events once per month - and even hold virtual socials to watch rocket launches! We have a yearly in-person, all-company summit in locations like Seattle, Athens, Goa, and Barcelona.\nEqual Opportunity Employment\n\nPhaidra is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Phaidra is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. We welcome diversity and strive to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance with completing the application process, please contact us at [email protected].\nE-Verify Notice\n\nPhaidra participates in E-Verify, an employment authorization database provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA). As required by law, we will provide the SSA and, if necessary, the DHS, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization for those residing in the United States.\n\nAdditional information about E-Verify can be found here.\n\n#LI-Remote\n\nWE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM RECRUITERS.\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

\nPython Engineer, Boulder, CO OR Remote within U.S. for well qualified candidates\n\n \n\nYour Impact at Ascend Analytics \n\nAs a Back-End Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. \n\n \n\nAscend Analytics is an innovative “climate tech” software and consulting company focused on energy analytics that are transforming the electric grid. Ascend's solutions provide the analytics to support critical power supply decisions from operating strategies, for short and long-term investment and resource planning decisions. For more information, visit www.ascendanalytics.com. \n\nJob Responsibilities \n\nSupport and advance back-end software applications by: \n\n\nDesign and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript) \n\nRefactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability \n\nDevelop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts \n\nImplement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale \n\nWork with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software \n\nCommunicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders \n\nMentor and guide junior engineers \n\nContribute to scoping and design discussions \n\nThis position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning. \n\n\n\n\n \n\nRequired Qualifications \n\n\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems \n\n2+ years as a back-end software engineer \n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications \n\n\nDemonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design \n\nFamiliarity with data processing in Python (including Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, Scikit-Learn) is strongly preferred \n\nExperience designing and developing full-stack applications and RESTful web services \n\nFamiliarity or exposure to cloud computing platforms and ecosystems, e.g., Azure, AWS, and containerization, e.g., Docker \n\nData Science, including statistics, machine learning, and data visualization \n\nReferential databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL \n\nAbility to communicate with impact and confidence, both orally and in writing \n\nStrong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic \n\nKnowledge of wholesale electricity markets; passion for renewables and storage \n\nExperience with code review, architecture, development, and promotion processes \n\n\n\n\nCompensation: $100,000 - $150,000, we may also consider Junior candidates in the range of $80,000 - $110,000                \n\nNegotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. \n\nWe offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.  \n\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   \n\nAscend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Design, Consulting, Cloud, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBoulder, Colorado, United States

Who You Are\n\nWe are looking for a driven Software Engineer (MLOps) to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers who may not be tech-savvy. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n**We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as an experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Design and optimize data storage & retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security & ease of access.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 7+ years of work experience.\n\n* Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Expertise with production Software Engineering - relational and non-relational data modelling, micro-services, understanding of event driven systems, etc.\n\n* Strong experience building large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals.\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience as a service owner of a realtime production system - operating & monitoring services in production, including using observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo or equivalent offerings and incident management.\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, hybrid or on prem environments\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\n* Languages - (Backend) Python, Go; (Frontend) JavaScript/TypeScript, React; Customer SDK & Clients - C# .NET\n\n* PyTorch\n\n* Cypress\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Vercel\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Ray.io\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Poetry, Pantsbuild\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* Initial screening interview with a People Operations team member (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, and discuss what you are looking for in a new position.\n\n* Hiring manager interview (30 minutes): The purpose of this meeting is for you to get to know the manager for the role. This chat will mainly focus on your previous experience and technical background. You can expect to talk about projects that you have worked on in the past and ask any questions about the team & role.\n\n* Technical Interview 1 (60 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to assess your skills in Machine Learning and related mathematics.\n\n* Technical Interview 2 (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring.\n\n* Meeting with VP of Engineering (30 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. You will cover the technical experience and the skills that you brinand have an opportunity to ask any questions about the team’s culture or vision.\n\n* Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values\n\n\nBase Salary\n\nUS Residents: $115,200-$208,800/year\n\nUK Residents: £96,400-£144,000/year\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.5M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.\n\nOur team\nThe Publisher Content Management team is responsible for building and evolving Scribd’s content and metadata ingestion services, publisher payout pipelines and the tools that enable our Content Operations team to manage the availability of our ever growing corpus of premium content. The team’s technical work is currently divided between our online Rails application and our offline Databricks environment (Scala, Spark, Airflow). Many of the systems we're responsible for span both environments, so engineers regularly work within both. Though the tech stacks differ between environments, the engineering work covers the same domains. Our team has a lot of interesting and challenging problems to tackle over the next few years as we continue to improve our systems and tools, while also investing in evolving and scaling them.\n\nThe team is located in San Francisco, but we foster a remote first culture. We use tools that emphasize asynchronous communication (Slack, Github, Jira, Google Docs) but will also pair program or jump into a meeting room when those are the best approaches. Regardless of the medium, excellent communication skills are a must. We operate with autonomy (developers closest to the code will make the most well-informed decisions) while holding ourselves and each other accountable for using good judgement when faced with each day's unique challenges.\n\nWe value team first Individuals. We work collaboratively, not as engineers working on individual projects in silos. We continually strive for inclusivity and strongly value diversity. We recognize that everyone has a unique set of work and life experiences, and believe that a broader set of perspectives will produce better results for all. Each day provides both opportunities to perform and opportunities to learn. We support others' growth and celebrate our collective achievements.\n\n\nThe role\nAs the Lead Software Engineer of the Publisher Content Management team, your job will be to provide hands-on technical leadership across all of the team's in-progress work as well as the team's technical roadmap. \nThe responsibilities include:\n• Leading the design, implementation, and delivery of your primary project.\n• Managing all aspects of technical project delivery, including system and architectural design, project planning, implementation, deployment, and operations.\n• Ensuring consistency of design, adherence to Scribd engineering principles and practices, and operational excellence across all team work.\n• Working closely with the team's Engineering Manager to prioritize technical projects and improvements relative to requested feature work.\n• Help shape the long term roadmap for evolving team systems to support orders of magnitude growth of Scribd's subscribers, and publisher/premium content.\n• Being a presence that makes every engineer on the team better via mentoring, coaching, and leading by example.\n\nAs the responsibilities demonstrate, the Lead Software Engineer role is more than just an advanced IC role. It is a hands-on leadership role, where you will balance the responsibilities of project work with technical team leadership. Your years of experience allow you to give guidance on projects you aren't deeply familiar with and quickly diagnose root causes of bugs. You and the Engineering Manager will be a team, with your expertise and ability to handle daily technical blockers enabling the Engineering Manager to focus on interviewing and hiring, people management, and project and roadmap planning.\nIf these responsibilities strongly match your interests in your next role, then you should apply!\n\n\nOffice or remote? \nAt this time the role will start as full-time remote, as all of our employees are working from home. When everyone is able to return to the office this role is available at our San Francisco office. This position can also be fully remote for candidates with experience leading development remotely.\n\nRequirements\n• 10+ years of experience as a professional software engineer with a focus on backend systems\n• 3+ years experience working with data pipelines\n• Experience managing multiple projects or a strong desire to take on these new responsibilities\n• Deep knowledge of common data architectures and industry technologies\n• Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent professional experience\n\n\nBenefits, Perks, and Wellbeing at Scribd\n\n• Healthcare Benefits: Scribd pays 100% of employee’s Medical, Vision, and Dental premiums and 70% of dependents\n• Leaves: Paid parental leave, 100% company paid short-term/long-term disability plans and milestone Sabbaticals\n• 401k plan through Fidelity, plus company matching with no vesting period\n• Stock Options - every employee is an owner in Scribd! \n• Generous Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Flexible Sick Time, Volunteer Day + office closure between Christmas Eve and New Years Day\n• Referral bonuses\n• Professional development: generous annual budget for our employees to attend conferences, classes, and other events\n• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs which include learning & development opportunities, employee resource groups, and hiring best practices.\n• Learning & Development and Coaching programs\n• Monthly Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort Benefit\n• Concern mental health digital platform\n• Work-life balance flexibility\n• Company events + Scribdchats\n• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family\n\nWant to learn more? Check out our office and meet some of the team at www.linkedin.com/company/scribd/life\n\nScribd is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\nWe encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote - US/Canada