Job Description

About Us
Eightfold was founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who the individuals are and the strength of their network, vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals as well as how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry’s first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their career.

To date, Eightfold AI has received more than $410 million in funding and a valuation of over $2B from leading investors to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society - employment, working on hard business problems and being part of an amazing growth story - Eightfold is the place to be!

You may want to refer to the media coverage on TechCrunch and Reuters. Eightfold is led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia - IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.

You can read more about our customers or access press releases here.

Core Infrastructure Team
We're the backbone supporting Eightfold's platform, handling everything from Search, Databases, Machine Learning Infrastructure to Developer and Application Platforms.

What You Will Do (or Learn To Do)

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within our distributed systems, ensuring a stable and performant infrastructure.
• Build and refine our AWS application stack, ensuring it can handle millions of users and petabytes of data.
• Develop containerized microservices, and support product deployment across various environments.
• Strengthen application and infrastructure security to comply with global standards, including meeting the stringent compliance requirements of governments as well as enterprises.

What You Should Already Know

• A solid grasp of Linux systems, data structures, and algorithms, along with a propensity for tinkering with systems.
• At least one year of experience writing secure, scalable code.
• Good fundamentals of distributed systems, and experience in hosting/managing services.
• Familiarity with DevOps and SRE principles. We are tools-agnostic and often build our own, or extend existing tools and services.

Good to have

• Experience owning significant pieces of cloud infrastructure on providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience building or contributing to open source projects.

Our tech stack
In our dynamic tech landscape, we prioritize using the right tool for the job. The tip of the iceberg includes:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, SQL, Bash
• Frameworks: Flask, TensorFlow
• Tools: Ansible, Apache Spark, Solr, Docker
• Databases: MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redshift
• AWS Services: S3, CloudFormation, SNS, SQS, ECS