Sequen - Staff Software Engineer – Infrastructure

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Overview

About Us Sequen AI is leading the charge for building frontier ranking models for search and recommendations.

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Sequen AI is leading the charge for building frontier ranking models for search and recommendations. Sequen AI's technology specializes in designing end-user behavior for large consumer enterprises.

About the Role

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We are currently looking for talented and experienced Infrastructure Engineers to join our team and support the development, scaling, and maintenance of our cutting-edge AI systems.

Core Infrastructure: The systems team is responsible for supporting clusters used to train, research, and ultimately serve AI models. Your work will be crucial in ensuring Sequen is able to continue to reliably train and serve frontier ranking models.
Observability: We build and maintain the infrastructure that monitors the health, performance, and efficiency of our AI systems. You'll work across teams to implement monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus,, and Datadog, while developing automated approaches for dashboards and alerts. Your work will create reliable, low-maintenance systems that enable proactive monitoring and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

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→Consult with different stakeholders to deeply understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, identifying potential solutions to support frontier research and product development
→Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable infrastructure systems.
→Design processes (e.g. postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice

Have 10+ years of relevant industry experience, 3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
Possess deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP
Are obsessed with distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
Have a passion for supporting internal partners like research to understand their needs
Have excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally

Strong Candidates May Have

Security and privacy best practice expertise
Hands-on experience with data pipelines and processing large-scale datasets
Experience with machine learning infrastructure like GPUs,
Technical expertise: Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems

What We Offer

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✓An senior role with massive impact on infrastructure and engineering velocity

✓Ownership of mission-critical systems that power ML and data workflows

✓Annual Salary : $250,000—$350,000 USD + Equity

✓Health insurance, unlimited time off, awesome team

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

Los Angeles, United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

About this job

Pay per year: $250,000–$350,000 a year; 57% above the $191,682 median for Software Engineer jobs on Jobera (6,303 salaries).
Who can apply: United States
Posted: 325 days ago
Employer: has 2 open jobs on Jobera.