Member of Engineering (Python) - Poolside

ABOUT POOLSIDE

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

Poolside exists to be this company: to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress. We believe the fastest way to reach AGI lies in accelerating software development itself, by reshaping the developer experience with agentic systems, coding assistants, and the frontier models that power them. We deploy these systems directly into the development environments of security-conscious enterprises.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration (and croissants) in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year.

Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We’re in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we’ve assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has. By building collaboratively and with intention, we create a compounding effect that moves the entire company forward towards our mission: reaching AGI through intelligence systems built for software development.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be part of the data platform team, which enables applied research teams at poolside to build high quality and large datasets for pretraining and postraining, run large-scale experiments end to end from data retrieval to running evaluations and benchmarks.

YOUR MISSION

Develop a robust platform that supports the creation of high-quality data pipelines and enables fast, efficient, end-to-end experimentation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a member of this team, you will:

• Build modular, reusable data processing frameworks and libraries in Python

• Work with applied research teams to build, test, scale and improve specific pipelines

• Work with both open-source big data solutions and internal systems

• Enhance system performance and reliability to allow teams to iterate faster

• Lead best practices in Python development

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Proficient in Python

• Debugging and problem-solving: using debugging tools, profilers, etc

• Experience with build tools, packaging and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with testing code: unit testing, integration testing

• Other relevant tools/experience:

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform

  • Experience with monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

  • Programming skills in Go or other languages

PROCESS

• Intro call with our Founding Eng. / VP Engineering

• Technical Interview(s) with a member of our engineering team

• Team fit call with the People team

• Final interview with one of our Founding engineers

BENEFITS

• Fully remote work & flexible hours

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays

• Health insurance allowance for you & dependents

• Company-provided equipment

• Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances

• Frequent team get togethers

• Diverse & inclusive people-first culture