Staff Software Engineer, Back End

Who We Are

At Gretel, we’re building a generative AI platform for synthetic data. Gretel’s APIs automatically fine-tune AI models to generate synthetic data on demand while protecting privacy and maintaining the utility and accuracy of the original data. Our synthetic data platform solves the data bottleneck problem for developers, data scientists, and AI/ML researchers across multiple modalities including tabular, time-series, relational, language and image. We're looking for talented backend Software Engineer to join our mission!

The Impact You Will Have

At Gretel, you will be working on ways to make access to data safer, easier and faster without compromising privacy. You'll be building cutting-edge technology to automate the process of synthetic data generation that is provably private.

What You Will Do

• Be a core contributor of code, tests, and application/data/systems architecture on a small team of engineers working across the stack
• Own both customer and developer happiness for your products in production, working with your own and other teams to build operational transparency and resiliency into every layer of deployed applications
• Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Basic Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional experience in software development
• At least 5 years of experience with scalable, API based agent or service oriented software architecture
• Experience with agile development methodologies for continuous development of product and technology
• Experience leading the delivery of large-scale distributed systems
• Strong communication skills - you speak, and write, your mind well. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or an algorithmic-centric discipline
• Experience building applications with Python, Java and/or Go
• Experience building cloud-scale applications in AWS and/or GCP
• Experience building containerized applications with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working remotely in a distributed company

Gretel is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Gretel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

Accommodations: We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all candidates and employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits and perks (additional information available on our career site), and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.

Employees hired in the U.S. and Canada can expect the below information to reflect a reasonable estimate of the salary offered for this role. Salary ranges are updated regularly using premium market data. (Please note: it is unusual for new hires to receive a base salary at the top of the range. Additionally, the value of Gretel.ai’s stock options is not included in the salary bands and may represent a significant portion of your compensation.)

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