Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
US - MA - CAMBRIDGE 44-48 BRATTLE ST, United States
S&P Global
We provide Essential Intelligence: a combination of the right data, connected technologies and experts to enable our customers to make decisions with conviction.Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in Machine Learning and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions for S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Our solutions help businesses harness the power of data and Artificial Intelligence to innovate and drive progress. Kensho's solutions and research focus on speech recognition, entity linking, document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, natural language processing, and more.
At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy and support needed to build amazing technology and products. To do this, we look for people who insist on a bias towards action to minimize unhelpful hierarchy and process. We collaborate using our teammates' diverse perspectives to solve hard problems. Our communication with one another is open, honest, and efficient. We dedicate time and resources to explore new ideas and, as a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Kensho, you will be responsible for building systems and frameworks that will be used by teams across the organization. You will be working on a team with experienced engineers and have an opportunity to learn and grow. As an engineer on the Infrastructure team you have the opportunity to work on the core platform that hosts all our assets, as well as to build monitoring & alerting that identify the health of such services.
What You'll Do:
Design core, backend software components that powers the Kensho language models and other products
Build tools to empower the engineering teams
Code using primarily python, jsonnet, and other languages
Collaborate with other teams to gather requirements and support their workflows
Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews
Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
What We Look For:
5-year of relevant work experience in software development
Professional coding experience and fluency in any 2 of Python, C++, Rust, or Go
Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems
Experience designing and deploying solutions to major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, with solid understanding of CI/CD practices
Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization
Familiarity with the Unix/Linux environments
How to Really Get Our Attention:
Your github account showing practical, entrepreneurial initiative
You have experience building distributed systems or have collaborated on a team developing internal tools
You have experience building systems processing large amounts of data
You have experience productionizing large machine learning models (LLMs)
You have experience in MLOps
Technologies We Love:
Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, PostgreSQL
Ubuntu linux or similar operating systems
Benefits & Perks
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
100% company paid premiums
Unlimited Paid Time Off
26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)
401(k) plan with 6% employer matching
Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities
Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences
Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches
Dog-friendly office (CAM office)
Bike sharing program memberships
Compassion leave and elder care leave
Mentoring and additional learning opportunities
Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events
About Kensho
Kensho uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and data visualization techniques to solve some of the hardest analytical problems and create breakthrough financial intelligence solutions for our parent company, S&P Global.
Kensho was founded in 2013 by Harvard & MIT alums and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.
As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an office in New York City.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
100% company paid premiums
Unlimited Paid Time Off
26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)
401(k) plan with 6% employer matching
Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities
Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences
Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches
Dog-friendly office (CAM office)
Bike sharing program memberships
Compassion leave and elder care leave
Mentoring and additional learning opportunities
Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events
We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an additional office location in New York City. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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Tags: Architecture ASR AWS Azure CI/CD Classification Data visualization Distributed Systems Engineering GCP GitHub Grafana Kafka Kubernetes Linux LLMs Machine Learning ML models MLOps NLP PostgreSQL Python Research Rust Terraform
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Health care Medical leave Parental leave Pet friendly Startup environment Team events Unlimited paid time off
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