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Platform Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States

Role

As a Platform Engineer at Samaya, you will lead the way we build, operate and scale our (cloud) infrastructure. This year we are setup for rapid growth to several thousands of expert users that rely on Samaya daily. You will be critical in ensuring our systems scale reliably while ensuring that our internal engineering experience maintains the highest standard.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize our platform. We need scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure to serve customer needs.
  • Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines and release cycles.
  • Drive and organize our on-call processes to ensure we maximize our availability to our customers.
  • Automate all our infrastructure needs using infra-as-code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, HELM and/or Kustomize.

Experience

Required

  • Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
  • 3+ years experience in tech industry
  • Proactive and eager to take ownership
  • Fast iteration based on user engagement

Preferred

  • Experience in building & operating cloud infrastructure for real-world applications
  • Experience in enterprise b2b companies, building security focused products
  • Experience in serving applications at scale
  • Expertise in best practices of building for scale, performance, and engineering best practices

Compensation

The cash compensation range for this role is $165,000 - $220,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

In addition to the base salary, we may consider equity as part of our total compensation package.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, and short-term disability) to support your health and wellbeing
  • Support your long-term financial well-being with 401K (US) and enhanced Pension contributions (UK)
  • Flexibility to rest and recharge with unlimited PTO
  • Travel budget to provide opportunities for learning and collaboration by attending conferences, visitings other offices, and more
  • Office equipment allowance to enhance the comfort of your workspace
  • Hybrid work environment to promote balance and flexibility, with typically 3 (or more) days in the office per week

 

Inclusive Hiring

Interview Accommodations: We are committed to ensuring an equitable selection process for everyone and welcome applicants from varied backgrounds to enrich our team. If you require accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process, please inform us.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Visa Sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About Samaya

Samaya is building the first Human-AI Knowledge Network – an information ecosystem to transform expert knowledge work.

Expert knowledge work drives trillions of dollars of economic activity. Teams of human experts painstakingly synthesize insights and drive decisions from vast volumes of noisy, real-time information. For examples, in financial services, expert analysts hone in on and use key economic insights to inform high-stake investment decisions. Although the volume of information only continues to grow, past technology has only had a passive role, and today's human experts struggle with information overload. We believe AI should take an active role in complex knowledge work, becoming an equal collaborator to human experts.

But such an AI will not "simply emerge" through scaling, or the development of general purpose LLMs. At Samaya, we are developing an AI-system purpose-built for "expert intelligence" -- for reasoning and interacting with real-world information networks. Our AI is designed to consume dense, noisy real-time information, distill key insights, form connections, contextualize findings, and make expert predictions. We are building a future where our expert intelligence AI can transform global knowledge work for the better.

Our Operating Principles

  • Put Users first. Our users rely on us to do their jobs. We exist because our users trust us to help them achieve their goals. In return for this trust users place in us, we keep their needs as our top priority.
  • Win as a collective. We are high achievers with a drive to succeed. We build strong bonds over this shared drive. We dive in to help when one of us needs it. We’re kind to each other and boost each other to succeed and grow professionally and personally. We build trust with each other by making commitments and consistently delivering on them. This trust means we genuinely support each other, embracing feedback as a tool for growth and improvement. We win by operating this way, as one team.
  • Focus and iterate quickly. Bias for action makes us build and learn quickly. Iterating fast requires clarity on what outcomes we are targeting and why. Prioritizing the important things, taking full ownership and initiative, making fast initial progress, and rapid iterations lead to the best outcomes.
  • Innovate Relentlessly. We pursue novel insights, challenging the status quo and reimagining how things are done. We aren’t attached to the past when improving our product and how we work in the future. We actively invest time in innovation, thinking “outside the box” to consistently raise our standards.
  • Prioritize Outcomes over Egos. We are committed not to a person, an idea, or an opinion but to continuously making progress to our goals. Sometimes, our goals are ambiguous; in those moments, we iterate, learn, and move on to the next inquiry. We ask the tough questions with kindness, dropping our egos in our pursuit of evidence. For our business goals, we learn from our users. For our scientific goals, our understanding is built through rigorous experimentation, research, and observation. For our personal goals, we embrace candid feedback and collaborative learning to guide our progress.

 

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Effective Date: September 29, 2023

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

Thank you for your interest in Samaya AI! This Privacy Notice covers all applicants and prospective employees (collectively, “Applicants,” ”you,” or “your”) of Samaya AI, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliate companies (collectively, “Samaya AI,” “us,” “our,” or “we”).

This Privacy Notice explains the kinds of information we may collect during the application and recruitment process, how we intend to use and share that information, and how you may be able to opt out of a use or correct or change such information. We are committed to complying with all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which we collect personal information of Applicants.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, or if you have a disability and would like to view this Notice in an alternative format, please contact Samaya AI by email at hello@samaya.ai. 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The personal information we collect from you may include:

  1. General HR information. This may include personal information you submit to us in your CV or other documentation as part of your application with us.
    • Examples: name, nickname or alias, postal address, phone number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, email address, date of birth, passport number, driver’s license number, Social Security number or other government-issued identification number. 
  2. Protected classification characteristics (as defined under California or federal law) 
    • Examples: Age, national origin, citizenship, marital status, gender (including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression). 
    • We also collect optional demographic information such as race or ethnicity to help ensure we are building an equitable workplace. 
  3. Internet or other electronic network activity information
    • Examples: your Internet protocol (IP) address, inferred location based on your IP address or activities, device identifiers associated with your computer or device. 
  4. Audio or visual information
    • We may collect audio and visual information such as through photographs used for identification purposes. You agree that Samaya AI (or our vendors) may record you if conducting interviews via a video conference call (e.g., Zoom).
  5. Professional or employment-related information 
    • Examples: employment history, information recorded on your resume/CV or application form, language abilities, professional qualifications. 
    • We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. For example, where permitted by law, we may look at your publicly accessible social media pages (e.g., your LinkedIn profile) or conduct background and/or credit checks on you prior to your employment with Samaya AI. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to Samaya AI. 
  6. Education information 
    • Examples: Education history (as part of a resume/CV or application form). 
  7. Inferences drawn from any of the personal information identified above to analyze your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. 
  8. Legal information
    • We also collect contractual information, such as personal information necessary to comply with our legal and contractual obligations, exercise our legal and contractual rights, and initiate or respond to legal claims.

Samaya AI may also collect personal information from its applicants as follows:

Communications with Us. We may collect personal information such as personal contact information when an applicant communicates with us. 

Information from Other Sources. We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, including through publicly available sources (e.g., your LinkedIn profile) and through third-party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. For example, where permitted by law, we may conduct background checks on you prior to your employment with Samaya AI or contact the references you provided to verify your previous work history and performance. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to Samaya AI.

Miscellaneous Information. We may receive or collect other miscellaneous information (for example, information you choose to disclose during the interview process, whether in verbal or written form, and opinions generated during the interview process).

HOW SAMAYA AI USES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We process personal information for a variety of business purposes including:

  • To assess your suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Samaya AI;
  • To communicate with you about the application process and/or your application;
  • To assist you with obtaining an immigration visa or work permit (where required and requested by you);
  • To take steps at your request prior to entering into an employment contract with you (for example, after we have sent you an offer, we need to process certain personal information in order to enter into and then perform the contract of employment);
  • To pursue our legitimate interests as a company (for example, to improve our application or recruitment process, fraud prevention, enforcement of legal claims, and research purposes);
  • Where it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; 
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives;
  • Acquisitions, divestitures, and integrations; and
  • As you otherwise agree or consent. 

HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information as described in this Privacy Notice (e.g., with our third-party service providers; to comply with legal obligations; to protect and defend our rights and property) or with your permission.

We Use Vendors and Service Providers. We may share any information we receive with vendors and service providers. The types of service providers to whom we entrust personal information include service providers for: (i) the provision of IT and related services; (ii) the provider of our job application platform; and (iii) processing for the purposes of verification or background checks.

Affiliates and Subsidiaries. Samaya AI may share personal information with our affiliates and subsidiaries for our and our affiliates’ and subsidiaries’ internal business purposes.

Disclosures to Protect Us or Others. We may access, preserve, and disclose your personal information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (i) comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) protect your, our or others’ rights, property, or safety; (iii) to enforce Samaya AI policies and contracts; or (iv) if we, in good faith, believe that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable.

Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another entity, then your information may be transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. 

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

All information collected via or by Samaya AI may be transferred, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including but not limited to, the United States, in order to carry out our application and recruitment process. We endeavor to safeguard your information consistent with the requirements of applicable laws, and limit the international transfer of your personal information to just what is needed to achieve our business goals.

SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR EUROPEAN UNION OR UNITED KINGDOM DATA SUBJECTS

If your personal information is subject to the data protection laws of the European Economic Area and/or the United Kingdom: 

  • Lawful Basis. Our processing of your personal information is supported by the following lawful bases: 
    • Legitimate Interest. We process your personal information to further our legitimate interests in reviewing your job application but only where our interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we or a third party have legitimate interests in carrying on, managing, and administering our respective businesses effectively and properly and in connection with those interests, processing your personal or sensitive personal information. 
    • Compliance with our Legal Obligations. We may process your personal information to comply with our legal obligations. 
    • Consent. In some cases, we may also rely on your consent to process your personal information.
  • Processing sensitive personal information. If we process sensitive personal information about you, we will ensure that one or more of the grounds for processing sensitive personal information applies, including where:
    • You have provided your explicit consent;
    • Processing is necessary for the purposes of your or our obligations and rights in relation to your application for employment with us when it is authorized by law or collective agreement;
    • Processing relates to sensitive personal information about you that you have made public; and
    • Processing is necessary to establish, make, or defend legal claims.

YOUR CHOICES

In some instances, you may have the right to opt out of and object to certain uses and disclosures of your personal information. If you are located in the European Economic Area and have consented to Samaya AI processing your personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us as set forth below. 

For more information on the choices you may have, and how to exercise them, please contact us as set forth below.

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN PERSONAL INFORMATION

Depending on the laws that apply to you, you may have the right to: (i) request confirmation of whether we are processing your personal information; (ii) obtain access to or a copy of your personal information; (iii) receive an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or ask us to send that information to another company (the “right of data portability”); (iv) restrict our uses of your personal information; (v) seek correction of inaccurate, untrue or incomplete personal information; and (vi) request erasure of personal information held about you by Samaya AI, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section.

We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy, Samaya AI will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.

DATA RETENTION

Samaya AI retains the personal information we receive as described in this Privacy Notice for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, carry out our application and recruitment process, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept liability for unauthorized disclosure.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS

Various resources and sites at Samaya AI may contain links to third party websites/applications and other websites/applications may reference or link to Samaya AI. These third-party services are not controlled by us. We encourage our applicants to read the privacy policies of each website and application with which they interact. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.

SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

If you are an applicant located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority if you believe our processing of your personal information violates applicable law. 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE AND PRACTICES

We may revise this Privacy Notice from time to time in our sole discretion. If there are any material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you as required by applicable law. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Notice if you continue your job application and related communications with Samaya AI after the new Privacy Notice takes effect. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the Privacy Notice in effect, you must immediately contact us. 

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, please contact Samaya AI by email at hello@samaya.ai.