Distributed Systems Engineer, Security

The company is pushing artificial intelligence to an unprecedented scale. We have a huge compute footprint and run some of the biggest GPU clusters in the world. As our scale has grown, so has our threat landscape – while advanced AI can benefit the world, in the wrong hands, it can also be used maliciously.

As a security-focused Distributed Systems engineer, you will build large-scale production-grade distributed systems that secure the company's massive fleet. This requires both providing easy to use, introspectable systems that can promote a fast debugging and development cycle, while also enabling that experience to scale to our newest supercomputers maintaining stability and performance throughout.

You will work alongside a team of engineers, developers, and security advisers to design, architect, and drive security improvements across the organization. We are a small company, and intend to stay small: as an early member of the team, the decisions you make today will have a significant impact on the organization today and into the future.

We’re looking for an engineer with a broad knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, and infrastructure operations, experienced with a wide variety of real-world issues.

In this role, you will:

• Work across our Go, Python, and Rust stacks
• Build infrastructure and primitives to secure our bare metal and cloud infrastructure, using modern approaches and technologies, such as trusted computing.
• Profile and optimize and help design for scale, while keeping security as transparent as possible to engineers and researchers.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have designed, implemented, and operated large-scale distributed systems.
• Love figuring out how systems work and continuously come up with ideas for how to make them faster while minimizing complexity and maintenance burden.
• Have strong software engineering skills and are proficient in Python, Go, and/or Rust.
• Have a good understanding of tradeoffs between security, reliability, usability, and performance.

About the Company

The company is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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