Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineer

Key Skills

A/B Testing, Aartificial intelligence, Analytical and Problem solving, Apache Beam, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Lake, Data Warehousing, Docker, Effective communication skills, GoLang, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GPUs, JAX framework, Kubernetes-K8s, Machine learning techniques, Optimization, Python Programming, Software Development, SQL, Terraform

Job Description

About us

Character’s mission is to give everyone on earth access to their own deeply personalized superintelligence that helps them live their best lives.

Achieving our mission will require solving ambitious technical challenges, including engineering, research, and design, and we are assembling a world-class team to do so. Our founding team includes AI pioneers from Google Brain and Meta Research whose research has led to major breakthroughs in natural language understanding and dialog applications such as Transformers and Google LaMDA.

Check out our beta to get a glimpse into the future.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering at Character, you'll have the opportunity to work on a diverse and exciting set of projects spanning both software engineering and data engineering domains.

Responsibilities:

Your initial focus will be on three key areas:

1. Activate our data flywheel: Develop data pipelines and collaborate with ML researchers to ensure continuous improvement of our AI models and alignment with human feedback.
2. Evolve our A/B testing framework: Conduct a thorough analysis of our current A/B testing framework and prepare it for the next generation of data-driven product growth.
3. Enable product team insights: Design, implement, and maintain a robust data warehousing solution for consistent and reliable reporting and ease of data exploration as we continue to better understand our users.

In addition, you may work on optimizing database and application performance, cleaning pre-training datasets, and contributing to service oriented architecture alongside the Staff Software Engineer - Application.

Requirements:

• B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of industry experience 
• Experience building data pipelines: Kafka, Spark, Beam, logical replication and/or Datastream
• Experience designing, implementing and using end-to-end A/B testing frameworks, data warehouses and data lakes
• In-depth experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Strong Python and SQL experience

Desired Experience:

• Experience tuning databases and optimizing query performance
• Experience setting up containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with PyTorch or JAX
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience writing and maintaining Golang and Terraform code

You will be a good fit if you are proactive and have a “get things done” mindset. Given our current pace of growth and load on our systems, most people have had a significant impact during their first week at the company.

Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.