Staff Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Primer exists to make the world a safer place. We do this by providing trusted decision-ready AI to the world's most critical organizations. Our software enables leaders, operators, and analysts to better understand the changing world around us in real time and make informed decisions when the stakes are high. Primer has offices in San Francisco, Pasadena, CA and Arlington, VA. For more information, please visit https://primer.ai/

In Short

• Architect and extend scalable ingest pipelines and data stores to ingest, analyze, and understand large volumes of data
• Design, package, and optimize the Delta product for deployment in diverse environments, including on-premises, cloud, and single-machine setup, ensuring smooth and scalable operation.
• Collaborate with teams on the Delta product to design an information retrieval architecture to analyze and conduct search on documents and graphs
• Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to extend the platform’s capabilities to new models and algorithms while maintaining performance metrics
• Work on massive datasets, integrating with features such as event and topic detection, relation extraction, summarization, entity recognition, document classification, multilingual NLP and knowledge base generation

Requirements

• Experience leading commercial software technical projects end-to-end in an agile environment on any major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Experience with data ingestion, processing and data retrieval systems at scale
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes), configuration management (Terraform, Pulumi), deployment automation (Github Actions)
• Experience with working with real-time and distributed systems
• 5+ years of shipping production grade software
• Expertise in Python and Golang
• Expertise in Flask, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis

Benefits

• We are a series D funded company with investors from Addition, USIT, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, Addition Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and others.
• We are intentional around building a diverse and inclusive team of subject matter experts to better advocate for the needs of our users.
• We care a lot about our work and about the well being of our team.
• We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have a flexible vacation policy for team members to utilize, Wellness Days and 100% paid leave for parents of growing families.
• We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. This includes full medical, dental, and vision coverage, fertility benefits through Carrot, mental health coverage on demand with Headspace Care+, Gympass+ Membership via Wellhub, One Medical Membership, 401(k), remote work stipends, and monthly internet allowance.