Member of Engineering (Infrastructure)

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.

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ABOUT OUR TEAM

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Design and implement the infrastructure and tooling used by poolside researchers and engineers. 

YOUR MISSION

The infrastructure team has 2 main missions: Make it seamless for our researchers and engineers to access the infrastructure they need, when they need it and ensure the underlying infrastructure for our cloud offering is robust, reliable, and scalable.
As a team we also handle incident response and security, maintaining trust and stability for our customers and users.

As part of the infrastructure team you are in a unique position to have an impact on all areas of poolside: from the building of our foundational models (from training to fine-tuning), all the way to our cloud offering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for designing and managing the infrastructure required by poolside's engineers and researchers. Leveraging automation to multiply your impact is essential for this role. Additionally,  you will develop tools and solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Proficient in Go

  • Experience in writing backend services

  • Familiarity in writing CLI applications

• Debugging and Problem-Solving

  • Expertise in debugging issues on Linux, including network and process-related problems

• Containerization and Orchestration

  • Experience running containers using Kubernetes

  • Experience with managed or self-hosted Kubernetes

• Cloud Services

  • Deep familiarity with AWS services

  • Comfortable managing IAM policies and ensuring proper permission settings

• Infrastructure as Code

  • Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for managing complex AWS environments.

  • Familiarity using Ansible for configuring bare-metal hosts or baking AMIs

• Operations

  • Skilled in Observability and Monitoring tools and practices

  • Adept in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines

  • Experienced in Incident Response protocols and best practices

PROCESS

• Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers

• Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers

• Team-fit call with People team

• Final interview with Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

BENEFITS

• Fully remote work & flexible hours

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays

• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents

• Company-provided equipment

• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances

• Frequent team get togethers

• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture

Data Retention

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider our statutory obligations, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes we process your personal data for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means. We specify the retention periods for your personal data in our data retention policy. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent. If you are offered and accept employment with poolside, the personal data we collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record, and we may use it in connection with your employment consistent with our employee personal data policies. If you do not become an employee, or, once you are no longer an employee of poolside, we will retain and securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our document retention policy and applicable laws and regulations.

Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure and Objection

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during the recruitment process. By law you may have the right to request access to, correct, and erase the personal data that we hold about you, or object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You may also have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another party. If you want to review, verify, correct, or request erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal data to another party, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai . Any such communication must be in writing. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal data that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or anonymized your personal data in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

Right to Withdraw Consent

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, and transfer of your personal data, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at legal@poolside.ai

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Notice when we make any updates. If we would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent only where required by applicable law or regulation.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our processing of your personal data or would like to make an access or other request, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai