Job Description

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Base pay range

$175,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr

About Us

At Union, we are solving one of the hardest challenges in AI infrastructure today: enabling highvelocity iteration while maintaining seamless productionreadiness for AI workloads at scale. Flyte, the opensource project we steward, is the emerging standard for modern data and AI orchestration, with numerous leading technology organizations like LinkedIn, Spotify, and Gojek running millions of missioncritical workloads on the platform. We have a deep bench of infrastructure veterans from companies in the Big Three and beyond and a technical founding team who originally created Flyte while at Lyft.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Head of Engineering, we are currently seeking a highly technical, versatile Distributed Systems Engineer with 10+ years of professional experience building, designing and implementing services and solutions to streamline delivery, installation, and orchestration of data and services in a largescale AI/ML platform based on the Flyte orchestration framework. Successful candidates will have a broad understanding of multiple cloud vendors, Kubernetes, API design, highvolume, lowlatency systems, and thrive in a fast paced environment. We value individuals who enjoy tackling challenges headon, can communicate effectively across technical and nontechnical teams, have a knack for creative problemsolving, and can balance shortterm priorities with longterm goalsboth as a handson technical partner across the organization and as a leader building a highperforming engineering team.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build distributed systems backend services (APIs, Kubernetes controllers, etc) and client components to install, manage, and observe Union services in a Kubernetes native environment.
• Lead, mentor, and foster the professional growth of a high-performing, collaborative engineering team through effective coaching and guidance.
• Design, implement, and optimize distribution strategies to facilitate simple and intuitive management of a complex platform in customer controlled environments.
• Work across multiple cloud vendors including AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI as well as neocloud providers.
• Develop and maintain services and tooling to make our systems more reliable, secure, and performant.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and participate in code and design reviews across various teams, ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Work closely with broader teams including Backend, Frontend, and Support to improve the experience for our customers.
• Frontend expertise is a bonus.
• You will be expected to be inoffice.

About you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in deeply technical roles in engineering functions.
• 3-4 years of professional experience leading, managing, growing and coaching a team of engineers.
• Have a deep passion for all things Kubernetes and the broader container orchestration ecosystem.
• Can navigate and pick up new technologies quickly.
• Always think about the big picture and can put yourself in the shoes of the developer and customer.
• You have handson experience with backend programming languages (Go, Rust, Python).
• Can own complex projects from planning to completion.
• Bonus: You have a general understanding of building modern web applications using Next.js, React, and Typescript.

Tools you will use at Union

• Languages: Golang, Rust, Python
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Buildkite, ArgoCD, Terraform, Helm

Benefits & Belonging

Benefits may vary based on country.

• Excellent medical we pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents.
• Generous dental and vision plans we pay 90% of the premiums for you and your dependents.
• Meaningful equity in the form of options all employees are owners here.
• Unlimited time off + 12 company holidays.
• 401K match Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5%.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
• Flexible work schedule (some restrictions apply).
• For inoffice employees: lunch provided onsite and a well stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks.

We believe that our differences are what bring us together to achieve truly special outcomes. We strive to be inclusive and focus on building teams that embody that quality too. Union.ai is an equalopportunity employer and we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesnt align exactly with our job description.

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