• Adversarial Engineering: Design and implement Python-based distributed frameworks capable of orchestrating millions of concurrent IO operations to hunt down race conditions and memory leaks.
• AI-Augmented Validation: Be at the forefront of the AI-Native transformation. You will leverage LLMs and Generative AI to automate complex scenario generation, build intelligent agents for root-cause analysis, and multiply your engineering velocity.
• Simulation & Chaos: Build the "Entropy Engine." You will develop tools that inject real-world failures - latency, packet loss, and hardware crashes - to prove the resilience of our Raft and RDMA implementations.
• Deep-System Observability: Move beyond "Pass/Fail." You will build telemetry pipelines to track P99 latency and jitter, providing critical architectural feedback to the Core Kernel teams.
• Collaborative Architecture: You will operate with the same rigorous standards as the Core R&D team: design docs, production-grade code reviews, and high-level architectural planning.

• Extensive Coding experience: You are a Python expert who understands "under the hood" internals. You are comfortable reading and debugging C++, Rust, or Go to understand how the core system works.
• Systems Engineering Mindset: You have a background in distributed systems, networking (TCP/IP, RDMA), or storage protocols. You understand the complexities of consistency and metadata at scale.
• AI Enthusiast: You are an early adopter of AI tools (Copilot, LLMs) and are excited about using them to automate the most tedious parts of the engineering lifecycle.
• The "SRE" Lens: You approach quality through the lens of Site Reliability Engineering. You care about observability, MTTD (Mean Time to Detection), and building self-healing testing loops.
• Problem Hunter: You have a "hacker" instinct. You don’t just find a bug; you find the architectural flaw that allowed it to exist.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll:

You will be responsible for building the "brain" of Weka’s main product, which is a distributed file system —the layer that manages orchestration, metadata, cluster membership, and implements complex logic required to manage hundreds of thousands of nodes, for cluster scaling, automated failover, zero-downtime rolling upgrades and "self-healing" to detect and remediate hardware failures or network partitions.

• Design, implement, unit test, and maintain services that coordinate and the cluster 
• Optimize Performance: Work with complex data structures like spanning trees  or LSM-Trees, concurrency control mechanisms (MVCC) to improve speed and efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate backend capabilities into real-world impact

Requirements:

• Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems.
• 5 year experience in systems programming, preferably C/C++
• Proven experience building complex, high-performance distributed systems such as databases, file systems, or distributed data platforms, at scale
• Strong distributed troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.

It's nice if you have:

• Experience with Rust/ Go
• Experience with NGINX/Envoy and general background in networking concepts 
• Experience working with K8s 
• Experience with distributed consensus protocols (such as  Raft or Paxos)

The WEKA Way:

• 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.

Concerned that you don’t meet every qualification above?

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every qualification specified. At WEKA, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but are concerned that your past work experience doesn’t match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway – you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.

 WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

About WEKA

WEKA is redefining the enterprise data stack for the age of AI. Our platform enables the world’s most advanced organizations to run high-performance workloads - from large-scale model training to real-time inference - faster and more efficiently.

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.

The Role

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Have a direct impact on AI performance and GPU efficiency at scale
• Combine deep technical thinking with product ownership
• Own product decisions that influence real-world system behavior

As a Product Manager at WEKA, you will define how next-generation AI workloads interact with high-performance storage and networking systems.

This is a deep-tech product role at the core of our platform, where your decisions directly impact performance, scalability, and efficiency across large-scale AI environments.

You’ll operate at the intersection of product, distributed systems, and hardware-aware infrastructure - shaping how modern data platforms are built and optimized.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute product strategy for WEKA’s platform and infrastructure layer
• Own the product roadmap - balancing innovation, performance, and customer needs
• Work closely with engineering to design and deliver high-performance capabilities
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear product decisions and priorities
• Partner with customers and internal teams to understand real-world use cases and constraints
• Stay ahead of trends in storage, networking, and distributed systems
• Collaborate with top engineers, architects, and customers solving cutting-edge challenges

What You Bring

You’re a product thinker with a strong technical foundation, who enjoys going deep into complex systems.

You might come from one (or more) of these backgrounds:

• Product Manager in infrastructure / platform / deep-tech domains
• Software Engineer or Architect who transitioned into product
• Sales Engineer highly experienced with storage, networking, or distributed systems

Your Experience Includes

• Experience in one or more of the following:
• Storage systems (e.g., NVMe, SSDs, RAID)
• Networking / high-performance protocols (e.g., RDMA, DPDK)
• Distributed systems / infrastructure platforms
• Ability to work closely with engineering on complex technical challenges
• Strong communication skills - able to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience driving product decisions in fast-paced environments

Nice to Have 

• Familiarity with technologies like RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE), GPUDirect Storage, or kernel-bypass networking
• Understanding of performance optimization (latency, throughput, IOPS)
• Experience with large-scale data or AI infrastructure

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:

The filesystem group is a high-powered team responsible for implementing algorithms at scales of 100s of PBs. The team also manages the core filesystem components, including blocks and metadata management, snapshots, RAID logic, object-store tiering, unique cloud disaster recovery features, and more. And most importantly, they skillfully handle the most delicate part of the Weka solution – our customers’ data.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll:

• Design and develop distributed file system components to support data management features such as snapshots, replication, tiering, and advanced data reduction algorithms;
• Participate in the design, architecture, and implementation of next-generation storage architecture;
• Assist in technically managing initial storage implementations including proofs-of-concept;
• Diagnose bottlenecks and implement clean and performant solutions to achieve unbeatable performance; 
• Design algorithms and data structures to make sure customer data is safe and coherent across our solution in a wide variety of failure modes; and
• Constantly revisit the architecture, algorithms, and methodologies to improve productivity, reliability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Mastery of low-level and performant programming in C or C++/ Rust
• A thorough understanding of concurrency, inter-process communication, threading models, and synchronization concepts, including significant experience with complex multithreaded software design
• Experience identifying, reproducing, and resolving complex software defects, including root cause isolation, tracing through large source codebases, and implementing long-term fixes as well as short-term workarounds
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Linux development and debugging, along with a broad knowledge and understanding of Linux internals

It's nice if you have:

• Experience in data-path design and development
• Experience with development of highly-distributed systems
• Deep familiarity with concepts and features from the storage industry, including snapshots, replication, transparent data migration, and data reduction techniques
• Experience with ZFS, XFS, or other file systems or with enterprise storage solutions
• Experience working with the Linux filesystem community
• Contribution, upstreaming, or maintaining of filesystem code
• Experience playing a significant role in the implementation of a concurrent, long-running performant server

The WEKA Way:

• 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.

Concerned that you don’t meet every qualification above?

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every qualification specified. At WEKA, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but are concerned that your past work experience doesn’t match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway – you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.

 WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.