[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Ocient

Role Description

Ocient is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Tools & Developer Platform team to own and evolve sophisticated test automation and analysis infrastructure while contributing broadly to developer experience and tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Build automation and services (primarily using Python) to operate and test the Ocient distributed database system and integrations.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and build the tooling to fulfill those needs.
• Maintain and extend existing tooling for performance testing and analysis and the automation that keeps tests reproducible.
• Produce documentation for future maintainers and concise runbooks for developers.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated growth mindset and ability to learn new languages and systems rapidly.
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 4+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Strong systems thinking and software fundamentals.
• Comfortable working in Linux, with shell tooling, debugging tools, and CI systems.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with advanced Python features and typing.
• Data gathering and analysis skills; a scientific mindset is a plus.
• Experience operating and/or performance tuning a distributed database system.
• Familiarity managing test infrastructure, including infrastructure as code tools.

Interview Requirements

• All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session.
• The use of video filters, face-altering effects, or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.

Technical Assessment Notice

• Candidates will be required to download and install the HackerRank Desktop Application to complete coding assessments and technical interviews as part of our hiring process.

Company Description

Ocient is building OcientAIQ™ – a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale, for the organizations that can't afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard, and the work matters.

Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015), Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Buoyant Ventures.