Senior Software Engineer, Control

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA sets the standard for agentic AI data infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that dramatically increase GPU utilization and make AI model training and inference, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.

WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

What You'll Be Doing

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to up our Control Plane team. You’ll help craft innovative features and key components for Weka’s main product, which is a distributed file system that provides critical services and value for our customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, You’ll

• Design, implement, unit test, and maintain features to be of production quality performance and stability
• Take ownership and lead the development of different components in the control plane
• Work alongside Product and QA personnel to improve correctness and quality
  
  

• 5+ years of experience in C/C++ development
• Experience with development over Linux, including low-level User-Mode OS knowledge
• Prior involvement with networking
• Exposure to control plane systems that coordinate or manage distributed components
  
  

• Experience with Rust/ Go
• Experience in the storage industry, databases, or other infrastructure
• Experience working with AWS or other public clouds
• Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems, databases, or others
  
  

• We are Accountable: We take full ownership, always– even when things don’t go as planned. We lead with integrity, show up with responsibility & ownership, and hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards.
• We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks when needed. We welcome challenges and embrace debates as opportunities for growth, turning courage into fuel for innovation.
• We are Collaborative: True collaboration isn’t only about working together. It’s about lifting one another up to succeed collectively. We are team-oriented and communicate with empathy and respect. We challenge each other and conduct positive conflict resolution. We are being transparent about our goals and results. And together, we’re unstoppable.
• We are Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We actively listen and prioritize the success of our customers, and every decision we make is driven by how we can better serve, support, and empower them to succeed. When our customers win, we win.