Senior Back-End Developer

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. The company is an engineering-lead company. Every application is reviewed directly by a technical member of the team. You will be a core contributor that allows Vast to scale to millions of GPUs. Example Projects Migrate a PostgreSQL DB from remote RDS to local in-memory. Implement full backend logic for a new SLA reliability feature. Convert ad hoc 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. Annual Salary Range $130,000 - $200,000 + equity + benefits Vast.ai is hiring across all experience levels with compensation commensurate with background and experience. Benefits Health, dental, vision and life insurance coverage Matching 401K Ambitious, fast-paced startup environment Generous equity Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type Full-time Job function Design and Engineering Industries Food and Beverage Services, Manufacturing, and Food and Beverage Manufacturing #J-18808-Ljbffr Vast.ai