Sr. Staff Engineer

Position Summary

The work you do will be instrumental in helping organizations across many industries, empowering companies to harness the power of AI in addressing business challenges efficiently and at scale. As a Sr. Staff Engineer at Veritone, you will design, build and champion innovative and useful features to our Platform UI for the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement services in a variety of programming languages mainly TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Build UI solutions that meet our customer’s needs and are maintainable, cost-effective, and responsive.
• Partner with our product, design, and infrastructure teams to build or enhance applications and services.
• Own the reliability of the application and services by partnering with operations and infrastructure to build, scale, and monitor services and applications.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software code for our high-performance business applications.
• Analyze and optimize User Interface and Backend Application code for efficiency.
• Mentor JR engineer

What You'll Need

• At least 10+ years of professional experience building high-performance, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment.
• Proven track record of writing maintainable code, including unit tests, readable code, and sound implementations of design patterns.
• Successful deployment of production code at scale.
• Expertise in Javascript / Typescript Languages
• Expertise in V8 Runtimes
• Expertise in React / Redux
• Familiarity with GraphQL / ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with Javascript Heap / Call Stack
• Familiarity with Javascript transpilers like Webpack / Vite
• Familiarity with mono repo tooling like Lerna/Nx
• Familiarity with testing with Cypress
• Written Babel / Webpack / Rollup Plugins
• Strong debugging skills / Javascript Performance in Node/Chrome
• Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes for deployment
• Familiarity with Kibana / Grafana for logging, and monitoring
• Curious / Continuous Learner
• Can do / Never give up attitude

BONUS POINTS IF

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or solid knowledge of CS fundamentals (OOP, design patterns, algorithms, etc.)
• Master’s in Software Engineering, preferably with a focus on Programming Languages.
• Experience and a desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Desire to work on the next generation of Artificial Intelligence applications.
• Self-taught is okay; we value knowledge and passion.

Veritone is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and solutions. The company's proprietary operating system, aiWARE, orchestrates an expanding ecosystem of machine-learning models to transform audio, video and other data sources into actionable intelligence. We love to continuously grow while staying ahead of trends and creating structure in an unstructured world.

Key skills/competency

• TypeScript
• React
• Node.js
• Distributed Systems
• System Design
• UI Development
• Application Reliability
• Debugging
• Performance Optimization
• Mentorship