# Staff Software Engineer, Ray Data at Anyscale

- Company: Anyscale
- What the company does: Powered by Ray, Anyscale helps AI builders run data-intensive workloads to build and deploy Foundation Models and AI at scale on any cloud. Backed by NEA, a16z and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.anyscale.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $240K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyscale/5104d34f-d58a-4165-bb30-9a96c8ff311c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anyscale-staff-software-engineer-ray-data/

## About the role

Design, build, and improve the core systems that power Ray Data , with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability. Design and optimize distributed execution across different stages of data pipelines in heterogeneous environments.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of experience building production-grade software, infrastructure, or developer-facing systems, with strong Python engineering experience
- 6+ years of experience personally owning core architectural decisions within a distributed data or compute engine, rather than primarily operating or using a platform someone else designed
- Deep experience with distributed systems internals, such as scheduling, fault tolerance, data partitioning, distributed execution, performance optimization, or database and query engine internals
- A track record of reasoning through system-level tradeoffs and defending architectural decisions, such as batch vs. streaming, static vs. dynamic resource allocation, or consistency vs. availability
- Passion for solving the unsolved problems in large-scale AI infrastructure and building systems that enable the next generation of AI applications

Tags: Engineering