Youll be responsible for the backbone that powers Galileo s platform. This role is all about solving hard systems problems at scale and making our infrastructure resilient, fast, and reliable. Were seeking for a talented software engineer excited to work on the backbone of the Galileo platform. The ideal candi is someone who has built large-scale real-time infrastructure, services, and APIs that scale to millions of queries, addressed challenges that come with systems of scale, worked on and optimized high throughput traffic on SQL and NoSQL data stores, time-series databases and/or Object stores.
What youll be doing - Build and scale core infrastructure design and optimize distributed systems and APIs that handle millions of real-time queries with low latency and high reliability.
- Develop data-intensive systems work across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and object stores, ensuring data pipelines and lookups are optimized for throughput and efficiency.
- Optimize performance at scale profile and tune systems for latency, throughput, and cost, ensuring the platform can grow with customer demand.
- Work on real-time serving systems design high-throughput caching layers and data lookup services to enable fast, reliable access to large-scale datasets.
- Build and extend pub-sub and orchestration frameworks leverage and improve systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Celery to coordinate workloads and streaming data pipelines.
- Design internal developer tooling create load testing, bench king, and performance analysis tools that help us and our customers understand and trust the system.
- Collaborate cross-functionally partner with product, research, and application engineering teams to ensure the platform can support new capabilities, models, and workloads.
What were looking for
Experience with large scale distributed systems Experience with NoSQL databases and time-series databases Worked on real-time high throughput caching systems Excellent python programming skills Worked with raw-data lookup indexes such as Lucene and/or similar frameworks Experience with runtime orchestration and pub-sub frameworks like RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka Built low-latency data lookup APIs Built internal tooling foundations for performance testing, load testing and bench king Bonus Skills
time-series or columnar databases
(e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, DuckDB) distributed query engines or streaming frameworks
(Presto, Trino, Flink, Spark Streaming) container orchestration and scaling systems
observability and performance tooling
- Join a seasoned founding team that has prev iously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
- We obsess over our team s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity
- We invest in our team s development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers towards that end, we offer:
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- Unlimited PTO
- Parental Leave (birthing & non-birthing) 100% pay for 8 weeks
- Pre-IPO Stock Options
- Commuter Benefits (pre-tax + company sponsored)
- Mental & Physical Wellness Stipend
- Catered Meals on in-office days
- HQ in Burlingame + hub in Brooklyn + hub in Bangalore
- Build the company alongside the Founders
Galileo is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other unlawful factor.
Galileo is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
