Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Join poolside, a company building AI to drive economically valuable work and scientific progress, as a Data Engineer. You will develop a robust platform supporting high-quality data pipelines and enabling fast, efficient, end-to-end experimentation. This role is crucial for ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and optimized for large-scale data processing. The team is remote-first, with occasional in-person meetings. The position requires strong programming skills and experience with distributed systems and data pipelines. Poolside offers a comprehensive benefits package including fully remote work, flexible hours, generous vacation time, health insurance allowance, company equipment, and various allowances.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in either Python, Go, C or C++ (we are open to polyglot engineers from other languages)
• Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, data processing systems, and query engines

Responsibilities

• Work on our data platform, supporting core data pipelines and improving data infrastructure
• Work with both open-source big data solutions and internal systems
• Enhance system performance, scalability, and reliability for large-scale data processing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container runtimes and Linux system programming
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Apache Spark

Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours
• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents
• Company-provided equipment
• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances
• Frequent team get togethers
• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture