Software Engineer, Infrastructure
- Salary
- $180,000 - $300,000
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Mateo
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
About the Company
DatologyAI's standard text
Models are what they eat. But a large portion of training compute is wasted training on data that are already learned, irrelevant, or even harmful, leading to worse models that cost more to train and deploy.
At DatologyAI, we’ve built a state of the art data curation suite to automatically curate and optimize petabytes of data to create the best possible training data for your models. Training on curated data can dramatically reduce training time and cost (7-40x faster training depending on the use case), dramatically increase model performance as if you had trained on >10x more raw data without increasing the cost of training, and allow smaller models with fewer than half the parameters to outperform larger models despite using far less compute at inference time, substantially reducing the cost of deployment. For more details, check out our recent research on synthetic data scaling (BeyondWeb) and pretraining with domain-specific data (The Finetuner’s Fallacy).
We raised a total of $57.5M in two rounds, a Seed and Series A. Our investors include Felicis Ventures, Radical Ventures, Amplify Partners, Microsoft, Amazon, and AI visionaries like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Jeff Dean, and many others who deeply understand the importance and difficulty of identifying and optimizing the best possible training data for models. Our team has pioneered this frontier research area and has the deep expertise on both data research and data engineering necessary to solve this incredibly challenging problem and make data curation easy for anyone who wants to train their own model on their own data.
This role is based in San Mateo, CA. We are in office 4 days a week.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join as a member of our core Datology AI team. As one of our early senior hires, you will partner closely with our founders on the direction of our product and drive business-critical technical decisions. You will lead the development of our data infrastructure capabilities, including multi-cloud support and support for various deployment models, as well as training and inference infrastructure. You will have a broad impact on the technology, product, and our company's culture.
What You'll Work On
- Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
- Architect, build, and deploy our core infrastructure while supporting multiple cloud providers and various deployment models
- Accelerate company productivity by empowering your fellow engineers & teammates with excellent tooling and systems, providing a best-in-case experience
- Partner with researchers and engineers to bring new features and research capabilities to our customers
About You
- 4+ years of relevant experience
- Have meaningful experience in spearheading and constructing large-scale infrastructure
- Proficiency in bash, Kubernetes, Python, and/or Terraform or similar technologies
- Have experience working with AWS, other cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP and/or on-prem environments
- Have expertise in debugging problems across the stack, such as networking issues, performance problems, hardware issues or memory leaks
- Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
- Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
- Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
We would love it if you had:
- Built out data infrastructure from, or nearly from, scratch at a fast-growing startup.
- Experience building ML/DL infrastructure and/or data infrastructure that feeds into training large ML models
Don’t meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply. If you’re excited about our mission and eager to learn, we want to hear from you!
Compensation
At DatologyAI, we are dedicated to rewarding talent with competitive salary and meaningful equity. The salary for this position ranges from $180,000 to $300,000.
- Starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and interview performance.
Benefits
- 100% covered health benefits (medical, vision, and dental).
- 401(k) plan with a generous 4% company match.
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Paid Parental Leave of 12 weeks, plus 6 months of WFH flexibility.
- Annual $2,000 wellness stipend.
- Annual $1,000 learning and development stipend.
- Daily lunches and snacks are provided in our office!
- Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area.
What this role asks for
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Bash · Terraform
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Python
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 4 open in Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (4 of 4), AWS (2 of 4), Azure (2 of 4), Bash (2 of 4), GCP (2 of 4), Kubernetes (2 of 4), Terraform (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Software Engineer, Front-end posted Mar 18
- Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure posted Jan 29
- Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure posted Mar 20
From the team and dates on DatologyAI's own job board.
Salary context
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