About the Position
WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. The WEKA® Data Platform 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.
We’re seeking a Team Lead to spearhead our new Engineering team in Boston, MA.
At WEKA, we’re driven by a passion for solving complex data challenges, empowering our customers to innovate faster, and driving their business growth. If you share this passion, we’d love for you to join us on this exciting journey.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and deep technical supervision to teams of engineers developing our distributed, high-scale, cutting-edge cluster
- Lead and mentor engineers to ensure timely delivery, quality development, productivity, and efficiency
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including QA, product management, and support, in an agile environment
- Develop resource plans and schedules, and actively participate in cross-functional release and roadmap planning
- Engage in technical communication within the team and across other groups to ensure alignment and innovation
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in storage, networking, and/or large-scale distributed systems environments
- Experience implementing distributed and scalable algorithms and data structures
- Proven track record of managing development teams for at least 3–5 years
- 10+ years of experience in C/C++ system-level programming
- Extensive experience writing high-performance, testable, and maintainable code
- Strong familiarity with hardware architecture (e.g., CPU cache, multi-threading, hyper-threading, NUMA)
- Familiarity with storage systems, databases, or other infrastructure technologies
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Experience contributing to filesystem, database, or similar data storage-related projects
- Exposure to open-source community practices
- Solid understanding of the Linux kernel (context switches, threads, memory, page cache, etc.)
- Proficiency in Python or other modern scripting languages
- Hands-on experience in storage or similar technical domains
The WEKA Way
- We are Accountable: We take full ownership, always—even when things don’t go as planned. We lead with integrity and hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards.
- We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks. We embrace challenges and turn courage into innovation.
- We are Collaborative: We lift one another to succeed collectively. We communicate with empathy, challenge respectfully, and are transparent with our goals and results.
- We are Customer Centric: We actively listen and prioritize customer success. Every decision is driven by how we can better serve and empower our customers.
Equal Opportunity
WEKA is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants. This includes race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, and protected veteran status.
We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match the job description—you may be the right fit for this or other roles.
