Software Engineer
Posted 27 Nov 2025
Advertised as “Senior Software Engineer, Platform”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA sets the standard for agentic AI data infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that dramatically increase GPU utilization and make AI model training and inference, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.
WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be an integral part of our Platform Group—a hands-on team of seasoned engineers responsible for building and optimizing the critical low-level components that power our infrastructure. This includes the networking stack, storage systems, task scheduling framework, and other foundational systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll:
- Play an active role in creating jaw-dropping designs, writing impressively efficient code, and conducting collaborative code review;
- Share fresh ideas and architectural guidance for our core areas of distributed computing, high-performance storage, and cloud computing; and
- Challenge our benchmarks with performance testing around IO and storage throughput.
Requirements
- Mastery of low-level C/C++ development in Linux user space or kernel-space with a vast experience in performance-sensitive code
- Extensive experience with networking concepts and protocols, including UDP, TCP, InfiniBand, Ethernet, and RDMA.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience with software development on Linux based systems
- Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems
It's nice if you have:
- Experience with DPDK, eBPF/XDP and libfabric
- Knowledge of storage systems and SSDs (SPDK)
- Prior involvement with deep networking (congestion control, bonding, VLAN, InfiniBand)