We’re looking for a highly skilled and forward-thinking
Staff Engineer
to help architect and scale the backbone of Eightfold’s platform. If you thrive in high-scale environments, love tackling complex infrastructure problems, and enjoy mentoring and collaborating across teams, you’ll thrive here. In this role, you’ll drive the design of foundational systems across our stack, influencing everything from search and ML infrastructure to developer platforms and observability. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for engineers who want to build what the rest of the company builds on.
About Team
The Core Infrastructure Team is the backbone of Eightfold, responsible for the architecture, maintenance, and enhancement of critical elements of our technology stack. This encompasses Search, Databases, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Data Warehouse, Developer Platform, and Application Infrastructure. Our work is foundational to every product at Eightfold, underpinning the services our users and customers interact with daily. The infrastructure we build and maintain is pivotal to our mission, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across all our offerings.
What You’ll Own & Drive
- Architect scalable, resilient systems across search, compute, storage, and ML infrastructure to support Eightfold’s AI-powered products.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives—working closely with Product, Security, Data, and Platform teams to ensure alignment with company goals.
- Contribute hands-on to system design, code, reviews, and incident response.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and supporting their growth into future leadership.
- Champion engineering best practices across system design, cloud architecture, CI/CD, security, and observability.
- Own complex problem-solving, especially around reliability, scale, and infrastructure performance.
- Stay ahead of the curve, bringing emerging technologies and scalable design patterns into our architecture.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering with deep expertise in building distributed, cloud-native systems.
- Proven success designing and delivering reliable, high-scale services (ideally in AWS, GCP, or Azure environments).
- Strong knowledge of containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience in one or more of the following domains: search infrastructure, application infrastructure, developer tooling, ML/AI infrastructure, databases/data warehouses, or platform security.
- Passion for mentoring and technical leadership—able to level up peers and influence without formal authority.
- Solid communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable translating deep tech into strategic impact.
- (Bonus) Experience with SRE principles, cloud security, and supporting enterprise/government compliance requirements.
Eightfold Engineering Values
We are a team of self-starters who excel in our fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in the work you are doing, and see the positive impact of your work on your colleagues, our customers, and people around the world. We have a mindset of continuously improving. There is no detail that is beneath us, and we can dive into anything needed. We focus on executing fast and delivering value to our customers every single day. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career.
About Us
Eightfold was founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who the individuals are and the strength of their network, vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals as well as how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry’s first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their careers.
We secured a
$220M Series E funding round, led by SoftBank
’s Vision Fund in June 2021. Thus, we’ve raised more than
$400 million
in funding to date, including $350 million in the last six months. We’re valued at
over $2 Billion
this time from $1 Billion a few months ago. Our valuation doubled within a few months.
Our customers-
https://eightfold.ai/customers/
Press
- https://eightfold.ai/press/
You may want to refer to the media coverage on TechCrunch and Reuters.
Founders
Varun Kacholia
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunkacholia/ ) &
Ashutosh Garg
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshgarg893/)
Our Engineering Leaders
Vineet Abraham
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineet-a-9264707/)
Vinodh Ravindranath
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinodhkumarr/)
Chandra
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasankaran-chandrasekar-31803624/)
Hybrid Work @ Eightfold:
We embrace a hybrid work model that aims to boost collaboration, enhance our culture, and drive innovation through a blend of remote and in-person work. We are committed to creating a dynamic and flexible work environment that nurtures the collaborative spirit of our team. Starting February 1, 2024, employees residing near Santa Clara, California, or our Bangalore and Noida offices in India will return to the office twice a week.
Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.
