Senior Backend Software Engineer, C3.ai
Platform, Data & AI
$155-190k
Generous equity plan
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Enterprise AI application development platform
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI application development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$155-190k
Generous equity plan
Office located in Redwood City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
C3's mission is to help industry leaders leverage enterprise AI at an unprecedented scale to thrive in the digital era.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- High proficiency in coding with Java, C++, C#, or some other compiled language. Python would also be acceptable
- Strong competency in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with any public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Some familiarity with distributed computing technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Familiarity with managed versions of these technologies on public cloud platforms is also acceptable
- Familiarity with technologies in the modern data science/analysis and engineering ecosystem (e.g., Pandas, Koalas)
- Good verbal and written technical communication ability to facilitate collaboration
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and value end-to-end ownership of components
- Intellectually curious and open to challenges
Desirable
- Advanced degree in engineering, sciences, or related field
- Experience with Agile development methodology
- Experience developing and working with REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Experience building scalable and reliable data pipelines
- Experience with integration of data from multiple sources
- Experience working with analytics and/or data processing engines
- Experience developing distributed computation over large-scale data
- Experience working with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)
- Experience with data science/analysis libraries (e.g., Pandas, Koalas)
- Experience with task schedulers in distributed computing (e.g., Spark, Ray, Dask)
- Familiarity with machine learning workload orchestration in a distributed computing environment
- Familiarity with workflow execution and/or optimization using DAGs, ideally for machine learning use-cases
- Conceptual understanding of orchestration and resource provisioning systems (Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- C3 AI is looking for Senior Software Engineers to join the rapidly growing Data org within the Platform Engineering department
- Successful candidates will get the opportunity to work on high-value technologies at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, and machine learning. You will design, develop, and maintain various features in a highly scalable and extensible AI/ML platform for large-scale applications, involving data science, distributed systems, and multi-cloud strategy
- Design and develop infrastructure and services to enable data pipelines for petabyte level scale and more
- Design and develop abstractions over datastores such as Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, etc
- Design and develop file system abstractions over AWS S3, Azure Blobs, HDFS, etc
- Design and develop connectors to various external data stores
- Design and develop distributed system components for stream processing, queueing, batch processing, analytics engines, etc
- Develop and maintain industry-leading, high-performance APIs for AL/ML applications
- Develop and maintain features for distributed computations over large-scale data for ML workflows
- Design and develop ML-specific data-systems such as feature stores and behavioral frameworks such as recommendation engines
- Design and develop integrations with distributed computing technologies such as Apache Spark, Ray, etc. for data exploration and ML workload orchestration
- Design and develop integrations with data analysis libraries such as Pandas, Koalas, etc
- Develop and production AI/ML models for failure prediction, data schema inferencing, etc
- Work on frameworks for performance, scalability, and reliability tracking over different components of a highly extensible AI/ML platform
- Work with architects, product managers, and software engineers across teams in a highly collaborative environment
- Participate and provide insights in technical discussions
- Write clean code following a test-driven methodology
- Deliver commitments promptly following agile software development methodology
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3.ai delivers a comprehensive and proven set of capabilities for rapidly developing, deploying, and operating large scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications for any enterprise value chain in any industry.
At the core of the C3 AI Suite is a powerful model-driven AI architecture that dramatically enhances the productivity of data scientists and application developers while future-proofing applications against underlying IT evolution. The C3 AI Suite is supposed to be 10 to 100x faster and more reliable than other solutions or DIY approaches, enabling robust delivery of production applications with less code and cost.
The C3 AI Suite seamlessly works with existing data storage, sources, tools, and infrastructure investment, while flexibly operating in a private, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environment. Having incorporated OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI software from Google and academia in its enterprise search product, investors are anticipating a huge surge in business for this innovative company.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2018
$100m
SERIES F
Mar 2017
$11m
SERIES E
Total funding: $221.8m
Company benefits
- Paid Parental Time Off: For US employees, mothers are eligible for up to a total of 10 to 12 weeks of paid parental time off with your newborn. All parents, including those adopting children, are eligible to take up to a total of 4 weeks of paid parental time off
- Hybrid Work: C3 AI employees may choose to work from home and office
- Advanced Degrees: Lifelong learning is a part of C3 AI. That’s why we will cover the total cost for employees to earn a master’s degree in computer science online. Those who complete the degree get three more big perks—a $25,000 cash bonus, a guaranteed 15% raise and a stock grant
- Continuous Education: C3 AI holds monthly employee training sessions as well as weekly lunch-and-learns. C3 AI also encourages further education by offering bonuses for the successful completion of select online courses
- Relax and recharge: In the United States, C3 AI offers 15 days of paid time off every year. As your tenure with the company grows so does your paid time off! C3 AI also offers 10 paid public holidays around which you can build your vacation leave
- Health Coverage: C3 AI offers competitive coverage. Our program includes medical, dental, and vision
- Equity: Restricted stock units are granted to all full-time C3 AI employees
- Free gym membership: To help keep you at the top of your game, C3 AI offers employees a free gym membership at our state-of-the-art fitness facility
- Catered lunches daily: C3 AI provides a fully stocked snack area and beverage refrigerator that contains everything from energy drinks to sodas and iced tea. Every day C3 AI provides a catered, gourmet lunch so that the team can relax together and share ideas
- Commuter check program: C3 AI offers tax saving commuter benefits program
- Travel assistance: Employees are provided global health insurance while traveling for business
- Ping-pong and pool tables: C3 AI has been known to host ping-pong and pool tournaments, allowing you to step away from the monitor. This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy coworkers while hitting a white ball at them
- Friday happy hour: Relax and unwind at the end of the week at C3’s weekly Friday Happy Hour. Enjoy good food, good drinks and great company at our office
- Flexible spending accounts: C3 AI offers both Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. Both accounts enable you to pay for essential health and wellness before you pay taxes on it
- Life insurance: C3 AI offers short term / long term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Additional leave benefits: C3 AI offers paid time off for bereavement and jury leave
- Continental breakfast: It’s the most important meal of the day. C3 AI offers breakfast five days a week, including oatmeal, cereal, fruit, and delicious coffee
- 401K: C3 AI offers fund options via Charles Schwab for retirement savings
Company values
- Innovation - Our ambition is to solve problems that have never been solved before
- Curiosity - We are self-learners, fulfilled by continuous knowledge acquisition to accelerate innovation
- Integrity - We comport ourselves with unwavering ethical integrity, respect, and courtesy
- Collective Intelligence - The respect we have for the intelligence and capabilities of one another fosters boundless collaboration
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Founders
Patricia House
(Vice Chairman)Previously Marketing Director at Oracle for 3 years and Executive Vice President at Frame Technology for 4 years
Thomas Siebel
(Chairman & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle for 6 years and CEO of Gain Technology for 2 years
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