
Open since Mar 2024
Software Engineer, Systems
AI Summary
Builds high-performance data processing systems for an AI agent observability platform, focusing on storage, indexing, and query execution for large volumes of unstructured data. Also expands the platform's query language and optimizes query performance.
About this role
About the company
Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.
About the role
We're looking for a software engineer who loves to build high performance data processing systems. Our customers are scaled up companies who send complex, semi-structured data which they need to process and analyze in real-time. Our unique architecture allows them to store this data on-prem, while creating complex visualizations that load instantly. Check out our Brainstore blog post.
If you've worked on database systems, compilers, networks, or storage systems, and want to translate this knowledge to the AI field, this could be the role for you. You will play a significant role in the foundational system architecture, technology choices, and implementation. Our founding team has deep expertise in database and ML systems, and you'll be empowered to both collaborate closely with them and explore your own ideas.
What you'll do
As a systems engineer at Braintrust, you’ll help build the core systems powering Braintrust's ability to process and query massive volumes of unstructured data at enterprise scale. Areas of ownership include:
Contribute to the storage, indexing, and query execution performance of Brainstore.
Expanding Braintrust's btql query language.
Optimizing query patterns to improve performance across our platform.
Ideal candidate credentials
Expert-level understanding of systems programming (C++ or Rust, concurrency, databases, operating systems)
Previous experience founding or working at startups is a plus
Has written prompts / tinkered with GPT models and apps
Benefits include
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Flexible time off
Competitive salary and equity
Wifi & cellphone stipend
Equal opportunity
Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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