Staff Back End Software Engineer, Primer
$225-250k
Automating data analysis
Job no longer available
Automating data analysis
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$225-250k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Primer's mission is to accelerate our understanding of the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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 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 and Kubernetes
Desirable
- Data-driven engineering; using metrics to drive decisions and inform performance and cost tradeoffs
- Hands-on DevOps experience with cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Kafka and Graph DBs
- Work experience in NLP/AI/ML focused companies
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, Back End you will have the opportunity to make a wide impact on our tooling, coding standards, and codebase
- Additionally, you will take the lead on building new or updating data driven product features working with cross functional teams to solve the technical challenges of our natural language processing and machine learning technology
- Architect and extend scalable ingest pipelines and data stores to ingest, analyze, and understand large volumes of data
- 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
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Since its founding, Primer has built a series of products founded on a core set of computational engines: Structure, Ensemble, Event, Context, Difference, and Story.
This modular architecture allows continuous development on Primer's analytic pipeline, giving customers access to a diverse set of document types over multiple different languages. These engines automate the tasks of extracting information, analysing on a large scale, identifying key insights, and outputting text and graphics that can be read by humans.
Primer fuses this machine intelligence, pushing the edge of what's currently possible, with a close-knit team that helps customers identify their core problems. These problems have included helping the Pentagon assess disinformation campaigns, and identifying Russian interference in Azerbaijan.
Primer's technology has been deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, Fortune 50 companies, and financial institutions, helping accelerate human understanding of the world. With current operation in Chinese, English, and Russian, more languages are also on the way.
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$69m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.1m
Company benefits
- Time Off: Flexible and unlimited PTO - we trust you to take time off when you need to
- Learning and teaching opportunities via individual book allowances, tech talks, and brown bag lunches
- Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave - 18 weeks for birthing parents, and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Volunteering: 20 hours per year for volunteering
- Stipends: Book and home office stipends
- Career Development: Formal training and hands-on opportunities to learn in a high-growth environment
- Health: Medical, Dental (including adult orthodontics), Vision & More
- Mental Health: Enhanced Mental Health Benefits through Ginger
- Equity: Company equity plan - we want you to have a meaningful stake in Primer's success
Company values
- Always Human - We are a company of humans, for humans. We respect and support each other’s humanity, in gestures big and small, bringing love and levity to even our most challenging moments. We act with humility, embrace diversity, and put our trust in each other
- Creating Legacy - We believe in building something of deep, lasting impact. We live for those achievements so special that you can’t wait to tell a loved one, but we know getting there takes persistence, a growth mindset, a tolerance for failure, and a shared sense of purpose
- Constantly Curious - We believe that curiosity leads us to deeper truths, and that the deepest truths lie hidden in the hardest puzzles. Those are the puzzles worth solving. We take great joy and pride in doing so, and in doing so first
- Obsessed with Better - We believe that every detail counts. No matter what we’re working on, we are obsessed with getting better, faster, and more advanced. We want everything we craft to be crafted — to feel crafted — particularly to our users. Merely okay is not okay
- Keeping Promises - We know that only what we deliver will have an impact. So we live to ship, and we ship on time. We take pride in keeping our commitments to each other and to our users, delivering continuously with an insatiable focus on the future
- Customers to Champions - Adding value to customers is everything to our growth. If we focus on delivering value vs. fulfilling line items on a spreadsheet, then we’ll succeed. No question
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Sean Moriarty
(CEO (not founder))Lead Independent Director at Eventbrite and Member of the Board of Directors at CoachArt. Former CEO and Board Director at Leaf Group.
People progressing
Emmanuel joined Primer as Lead Data Scientist in January 2015. Following a promotion to Product Engineering Manager, he was promoted to Director of Product Engineering in February 2019 and is now a Senior Director.
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