Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core

Anyscale
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 220,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical ownership","Mentoring","Hands-on debugging","Technical direction","Raising technical bar"]

Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, from roadmap and problem selection through production execution. Lead large, technically complex, multi-team projects and set distributed-computing architectural direction for demanding workloads. Build and evolve core distributed-systems primitives—covering distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, and performance—while staying hands-on with implementation and debugging and raising the team’s technical bar.

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Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core

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Job Summary

Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, from roadmap and problem selection through production execution. Lead large, technically complex, multi-team projects and set distributed-computing architectural direction for demanding workloads. Build and evolve core distributed-systems primitives—covering distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, and performance—while staying hands-on with implementation and debugging and raising the team’s technical bar.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, defining the roadmap and driving execution through production.
  • •Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations.
  • •Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for distributed computing infrastructure used in production workloads.
  • •Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives rather than integrating existing platforms.
  • •Stay hands-on with implementation and debugging while raising the technical bar for engineers around you.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid Parental

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of increasing technical ownership.
  • •Experience leading substantial end-to-end projects, including roadmap creation, architectural decisions, implementation, and production ownership.
  • •Experience leading projects larger than a single-engineer effort, spanning multiple engineers and lasting multiple quarters.
  • •Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems (not primarily integrating existing distributed platforms).
  • •Strong systems programming experience in languages such as C++, Rust, Java (or similar lower-level languages).
Experience:Distributed systemsComputer systemsAI computeOpen source
Skills:Technical ownershipMentoringHands-on debuggingTechnical directionRaising technical bar
Tech Stack:RayC++RustJavaSparkKafkaDistributed executionSchedulingResource managementFault toleranceMultithreadingNetworkingStorageSystem performanceDatabasesStreaming systemsOperating systems

Company Brief

Anyscale
Provides a managed platform and developer tooling built on the Ray open-source project to scale Python and AI applications across clouds, simplifying distributed training, inference and production deployment for engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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