Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
Dropbox
GoJavaPython
Salary
💰 $188,700 - $238,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Gather is building the all-in-one work communication tool (AI-native Zoom/Slack replacement) with over 100,000 weekly users
- Grapevine provides rich context for AI agents to navigate tools and structure knowledge
- As a Staff Search Engineer, build core search algorithm and evals for our knowledge base system
- Design and implement search across unstructured knowledge to improve Grapevine’s ability to reason over difficult questions
- Design increasingly complex and general evaluations to define new goals to surpass
- Tune how new information sources are incorporated into Grapevine’s knowledge
- Create digestion systems to extract vital information from unstructured data
- Mentor and inspire other engineers to think creatively about AI applications
Requirements
- Extensive experience with search & retrieval systems (esp. Opensearch, vector stores, PSQL)
- Experience on algorithmic engineering problems
- Experience building production-grade RAG systems (knowledge graphs, etc.)
- Comfort with hypothesis-driven research environments
- Intellectual curiosity that drives you to explore new approaches and stay current with emerging technologies
- Experience building internal tools for cross-functional organizations
- Excitement about working on a small team where your contributions have an outsized impact
- Strong debugging and investigation skills; you’re comfortable digging into an ambiguous problem statement and coming up with solutions
- A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve difficult problems without guidance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
- An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
- You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast
- A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly
