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Senior Engineer
full-time•Bengaluru
About this role
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.
To date, Eightfold AI has received more than $410 million in funding and a valuation of over $2B from leading investors to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society - employment, working on hard business problems, and being part of an amazing growth story - Eightfold is the place to be!
Eightfold.ai is led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia-IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.
About the Role
The Core Infrastructure Team builds and operates the foundation on which all Eightfold services run. From managing compute, storage, and observability to building tools that power the engineering ecosystem, this team ensures scalability, reliability, and efficiency across the company’s platforms.
As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll design and develop high-performance infrastructure systems that support a global AI platform used by millions. This is a hands-on engineering role with broad ownership and the opportunity to influence platform architecture and tooling.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain core infrastructure services that power Eightfold’s platform at scale.
- Build automation and tooling to support service provisioning, monitoring, security, and reliability.
- Own systems related to compute orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), networking, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Collaborate closely with product engineering, data, and security teams to ensure platform stability and performance.
- Contribute to observability, logging, and alerting frameworks to proactively detect and resolve issues.
- Drive best practices in infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in systems or infrastructure engineering (roles open across experience levels).
- Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, Linux, networking, and cloud-native technologies.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Prometheus.
- Experience building or operating production systems on AWS or similar public cloud platforms.
- (Bonus) Exposure to platform security, cost optimization, or infrastructure reliability.
We are a team of self-starters who excel in their 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 the world. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career.
Hybrid Work @ Eightfold: At Eightfold, we believe our best work happens when we collaborate closely, learn from one another, and build together. We follow a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with a strong emphasis on in-person collaboration to foster innovation, culture, and rapid execution.
Employees based near our Santa Clara, Bangalore, and Noida offices are expected to work from the office three days per week, as we believe regular in-person engagement is essential to how we build high-impact products and strong teams
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.
Experience our comprehensive benefits with family medical, vision and dental coverage, a competitive base salary, and eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses or commissions.
Our customer stories- https://eightfold.ai/customers/customer-stories/
What you'll do
- As a Senior Engineer, you will design and develop high-performance infrastructure systems that support Eightfold’s global AI platform. You will also build automation and tooling to support service provisioning, monitoring, security, and reliability.
About Eightfold
Eightfold AI's market-leading Talent Intelligence Platform™ helps organizations retain top performers, upskill and reskill their workforce, and recruit talent efficiently. Eightfold's patented deep learning artificial intelligence platform is available in more than 155 countries and 24 languages, enabling cutting-edge enterprises to transform their talent into a competitive advantage.
For more information, please visit our website.
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