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Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr

What You'll Do

• Develop key production features end-to-end.
• Architect, build, and manage core infrastructure for our document intelligence models (including VLMs) from R&D to production.
• Support enterprise customers with managed on-premise deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Maintain excellent technical documentation and open-source repositories.

What We're Looking For

• Deep expertise in Rust and Python for high-performance, reliable services.
• Proven experience building and maintaining scaled, complex distributed systems (microservices, parallelization, Redis, high-performance Rust servers).
• Skilled in high-urgency debugging and live system management.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker) and implementing OpenTelemetry for monitoring.
• Experience with major cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure PaaS/IaaS) and optimizing demanding workloads (e.g., VLM inference, large-scale data processing).
• Entrepreneurial mindset: experience owning a software product end-to-end and deciding your ideal roadmap.
• Familiarity with frontend deployments, debugging, and optimization.
• Comfortable with working across all technical aspects of Chunkr - reviewing the repository is a great place to see what we are doing.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet