What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Back-End Developer position at Vast.ai?
About Us
At Vast.ai, we value creativity, energy, drive and teamwork. We are looking for talented people who share these values to join as we grow our team. Our vision is to widely distribute AI computing to reshape our future for the good of humanity. Come join us. If witnessing the birth of AGI excites you, we can’t wait to hear from you!
Vast.ai is a market based cloud computing platform focused on reducing the cost and friction of compute-intensive workloads, enabling anyone to easily leverage large-scale GPU liquidity. Vast.ai is the market leader for low cost GPU rentals. Our GPU marketplace powers AI projects and businesses all over the world.
NOTE: Currently hiring for on-site work in Westwood, Los Angeles.
About the Role
We are looking for a strong senior programmer who can own the backend of the GPU marketplace. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and maintain the server-side logic, databases, and integration for the front-end at cloud.vast.ai.
This is a senior role and only suitable for someone with 5 years of experience. The company is engineering-lead with ample opportunity to grow. You will be a core contributor that allows Vast to scale to millions of GPUs.
Example Projects:
- Migrate a postgres DB from remote RDS to local in-memory.
- Implement full backend logic for a new SLA reliability feature.
- Convert adhoc logging file output to a modern logging backend.
- Quickly investigate and summarize options for new system architectures.
- Enhance database performance, including schema design and query optimization.
- Implement robust data security and backup strategies
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability and cost-efficiency.
You are:
- Comfortable in a variety of tools and languages such as Python, C , SQL, Javascript, React, CSS.
- Capable and willing to quickly investigate and learn new frameworks and tools.
- A fan of occasional remote pair programming.
- Passionate about building scalable and reliable high throughput websites.
- Excited about the potential of AI.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience writing high-performance, well tested, production quality code.
- Proven track record in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation.
- Senior level programmer in C/C , Python and PostgreSQL.
- Exceptional knowledge of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, networking and storage, memory management, performance and scale.
- Familiar with GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA is a plus.
Benefits:
- Full-Time, Monday - Friday.
- Onsite at the Vast.ai HQ in Westwood, Los Angeles.
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
- Matching 401K.
- Ambitious, fast-paced startup environment.
- Generous equity.
