Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Company websiteespresso.ai (Espresso AI, opens in new tab)
Base salary $225K to $450K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY
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- LocationNew York, NY
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (6 min ago) · observed since
About this job
About Espresso AI
Espresso AI’s mission is to use machine learning to automate performance engineering. Today, we help our customers reduce Snowflake and Databricks SQL compute costs by up to 70%, unlocking massive efficiency gains without requiring any workflow changes.
More and more businesses are adopting data warehouses to manage invaluable data analytics workloads. Unfortunately, the costs of these workloads often grow exponentially over time, with no easy way for users to reduce cost — until now. Our next-generation, AI-based approach saves our users huge amounts of money.
We’re a well-funded, early-stage startup scaling quickly. Our most recent round was led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
About the Role
As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will design and build the distributed systems that power Espresso’s optimization engine. You will work across real-time scheduling, workload execution, performance analysis, and the internal compute environments that allow us to safely and efficiently offload warehouse workloads.
You will own major architectural components, drive reliability and performance improvements, and collaborate closely with founders and engineering on long-term technical direction. This is a highly technical role with deep systems work at its core.
What You’ll Work On
Design, build, and scale Espresso’s distributed execution and scheduling systems
Develop internal compute environments to safely offload workloads from Snowflake and Databricks
Implement compiler-style analysis and optimization of SQL workloads
Build infrastructure and data pipelines that support ML modeling and product features
Improve performance, reliability, and observability across the platform
Influence architectural decisions and contribute to engineering strategy as an early team member
Mentor junior engineers as we scale the team, fostering strong engineering fundamentals and high-quality execution
What You Bring
7+ years software engineering experience
Strong fundamentals in systems design, performance engineering, and debugging
Ability to own complex technical projects end-to-end
Comfort operating across a broad range of infrastructure challenges and tackling whichever problems are most critical to the system
Nice to Haves
Experience at small startups
Background in data warehouse cost optimization
Experience with workload orchestration, query execution, scheduling, or runtime systems is a bonus
Exposure to SQL optimization
Experience with software verification
What We Offer
Competitive salary and meaningful equity based on final leveling
$225,000 - $300,000 Base Pay + Equity
Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise)
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401k with 4% match
Free salads & gym membership
Source: Espresso AI on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
This listingStaff Infrastructure Engineer$225K to $450K
Staff ML Engineer$225K to $450K
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| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Staff Infrastructure Engineer (this listing) | $225K - $450K |
| Staff ML Engineer | $225K - $450K |
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- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
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- Employer-stated posting date
- 2024-09-17
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Location as the employer wrote it: New York Office
USD 225,000 – 450,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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