Software Engineer, Systems Job at Eventual, San Francisco, CA

LzdHOW9HWlZtK3NKQkZ1cDRNUDVDaHlmUnc9PQ==
  • Eventual
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About Eventual

Every breakthrough AI application, from foundation models to autonomous vehicles, relies on processing massive volumes of images, video, and complex data. But today’s 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 can’t. Daft already powers critical workloads at companies like Amazon, Mobileye, Together AI, and CloudKitchens.

We’ve assembled a world-class team from Databricks, AWS, Nvidia, Pinecone, GitHub Copilot, Tesla, and more, quadrupling our size within a year. With backing from Y Combinator, Caffeinated Capital, Array.vc, and top angels from the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity, we’re looking to double the team now. Join us—Eventual is just getting started.

Please note we are looking for someone who is willing and able to come into our San Francisco office in the Mission district 4 days / week.

Your Role:

As a Software Engineer on the Systems team, you 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, we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve difficult technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Planning/Query Optimizer: intelligently optimize users’ workloads with modern database techniques

  • Execution Engine: improve memory stability through the use of streaming computation and more efficient data structures

  • Distributed Scheduler: improve Daft’s resource utilization, task scheduling and fault tolerance

  • Storage: improve Daft integrations with modern data lake technologies such as Apache Parquet, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake

  • Our goal is to build the world’s best open-source distributed query engine, becoming 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, talking 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. Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Ray, BigQuery, PostgreSQL etc)

  • 3+ years of experience working with distributed data systems (query planning, optimizations, workload pipelining, scheduling, networking, fault tolerance etc)

  • Strong fundamentals in systems programming (e.g. C++, Rust, C) and Linux

  • Familiarity and experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS S3 etc)

  • Most importantly, we are looking for someone who works well in small, focused teams with fast iterations and lots of autonomy. If you are passionate, intellectually curious and excited to build the next generation of distributed data technologies, we 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, and dental coverage

  • Flexible PTO

  • Latest Apple equipment

  • 401k plan with match!

Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Flexible hours, Night shift,

Similar Jobs

Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa

Experienced Pastry Cook 1- Full Time, $37.86/hour+$1,000 Hiring Bonus Job at Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa

Pastry Cook 1 As a Pastry Cook 1, at Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, you will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of all bakery outlets and assist with overall culinary supervision and execution of all menu categories and specific recipes for all bakery...

Titan, LLC - Alaska

Heavy Duty Diesel Mechanic Job at Titan, LLC - Alaska

 ...About the Role: We are currently seeking a skilled and dependable Diesel Mechanic to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining a fleet of diesel-powered trucks and equipment. If you take pride in precision, problem... 

Tri-Cities Monitoring Inc.

Security Officer - Medical Facility Post Job at Tri-Cities Monitoring Inc.

 ...Job Description TCM provides professionally trained Security Guards for ALL needs (Part time, full time, days, nights, & weekends). You will be required to work what is needed, so your availability for all 3 shifts, weekdays and weekends, is necessary currently - you... 

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education

Dental Administrative Assistant Job at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education

Dental Administrative Assistant Location Scranton, PA (Downtown area) : Description: POSITION SUMMARY The Dental Administrative Assistant (DAA) serves as the initial point of contact for patients and visitors. The DAA delivers the high standard of customer service necessary... 

Dana-co LLC

Spring 2026 Marketing Internship (Unpaid) - Fashion Public Relations Focus Job at Dana-co LLC

 ...Spring 2026 Marketing Internship (Unpaid) - Fashion Public Relations Focus Location: Midtown Manhattan Brand: Skarlett Blue Duration: January - May 2026 Commitment: 2-3 days per week (school credit available) About Skarlett Blue: Skarlett Blue...