Eventual

Building the AI data engine for any modality and scale

Software Engineer, Systems

$150K - $250K3an Francisco Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 3+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role 7Jay Chia Founder

About the role

About Eventual

Every breakthrough AI application, from foundation models to autonomous vehicles, relies on processing massive volumes of images, video, and complex data. But today9s data platforms (like Databricks and Snowflake) are built on top of tools made for spreadsheet-like analytics, not the petabytes of multimodal data that power AI. As a result, teams waste months on brittle infrastructure instead of conducting research and building their core product. Eventual was founded in 2022 to solve this. Our mission is to make querying any kind of data, images, video, audio, text, as intuitive as working with tables, and powerful enough to scale to production workloads. Our open-source engine, Daft, is purpose-built for real-world AI systems: coordinating with external APIs, managing GPU clusters, and handling failures that traditional engines can9t. Daft already powers critical workloads at companies like Amazon, Mobileye, Together AI, and CloudKitchens. We9ve assembled a world-class team from Databricks, AWS, Nvidia, Pinecone, GitHub Copilot, Tesla, and more, quadrupling our size within a year. With Series A and seed funding from Felicis, CRV, Microsoft M12, Citi, Essence, Y Combinator, Caffeinated Capital, Array.vc, and top angels from the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity,9we9re looking to double the team now. Join us1Eventual is just getting started. Please note we9re looking for individuals who are excited to be a part of a tight-knit team working together 4 days / week in our SF Mission district office.

Your Role:

As a Software Engineer on the Systems team,9you will build key capabilities for the Daft distributed data engine. You will be working on core architectural design and implementation of various components in Daft. While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship,9we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve difficult technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning/Query Optimizer: intelligently optimize users9 workloads with modern database techniques
• Execution Engine: improve memory stability through the use of streaming computation and more efficient data structures
• Distributed Scheduler: improve Daft9s resource utilization,9task scheduling and fault tolerance
• Storage: improve Daft integrations with modern data lake technologies such as Apache Parquet,9Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake
• Our goal is to build the world9s best open-source distributed query engine,9becoming the leading framework for data engineering and analytics.
• We are a young startup - so be prepared to wear many hats such as tinkering with infrastructure,9talking to customers and participating heavily in the core design process of our product!

What we look for:

• We are looking for a candidate with a strong foundation in systems programming and ideally experience with building distributed data systems or databases (e.g.9Hadoop,9Spark,9Dask,9Ray,9BigQuery,9PostgreSQL etc)
• 3+ years of experience working with distributed data systems (query planning,9optimizations,9workload pipelining,9scheduling,9networking,9fault tolerance etc)
• Strong fundamentals in systems programming (e.g.9C++,9Rust,9C) and Linux
• Familiarity and experience with cloud technologies (e.g.9AWS S3 etc)
• Most importantly,9we are looking for someone who works well in small,9focused teams with fast iterations and lots of autonomy. If you are passionate,9intellectually curious and excited to build the next generation of distributed data technologies,9we want you on the team!

Perks & Benefits

• In-person tight knit team with 4x a week in office
• Competitive comp and startup equity
• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
• Commuter benefit
• Team building events & poker nights
• Health vision & dental coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Latest Apple equipment
• 401k plan with match!