Senior Engineer

Eightfoldwas founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who the individuals are and the strength of their network, vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals as well as how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry's first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their careers. 

To date, Eightfold AI has received more than$410 million in funding and a valuation of over $2B from leading investors to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society - employment, working on hard business problems, and being part of an amazing growth story - Eightfold is the place to be!

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Eightfold.aiis led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia-IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.

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About the Role
TheCore Infrastructure Teambuilds and operates the foundation on which all Eightfold services run. From managing compute, storage, and observability to building tools that power the engineering ecosystem, this team ensures scalability, reliability, and efficiency across the company's platforms.
As aSenior Engineeron this team, you'll design and develop high-performance infrastructure systems that support a global AI platform used by millions. This is a hands-on engineering role with broad ownership and the opportunity to influence platform architecture and tooling.

Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain core infrastructure services that power Eightfold's platform at scale.
Build automation and tooling to support service provisioning, monitoring, security, and reliability.
Own systems related to compute orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), networking, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
Collaborate closely with product engineering, data, and security teams to ensure platform stability and performance.
Contribute to observability, logging, and alerting frameworks to proactively detect and resolve issues.
Drive best practices in infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.

Qualifications
3+ yearsof experience in systems or infrastructure engineering (roles open across experience levels).
Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
Strong understanding of distributed systems, Linux, networking, and cloud-native technologies.
Hands-on experience with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Prometheus.
Experience building or operating production systems onAWSor similar public cloud platforms.
(Bonus) Exposure to platform security, cost optimization, or infrastructure reliability.

We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in the work you are doing and see the positive impact of your work on your colleagues, our customers, and the world. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career.

Hybrid Work @ Eightfold:We embrace a hybrid work model that aims to boost collaboration, enhance our culture, and drive innovation through a blend of remote and in-person work. We are committed to creating a dynamic and flexible work environment that nurtures the collaborative spirit of our team. Starting February 1, 2024, employees residing near Santa Clara, California, or our Bangalore and Noida offices in India will return to the office twice a week.

Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability. 

Experience our comprehensive benefits with family medical, vision and dental coverage, a competitive base salary, and eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses or commissions.

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