WEKA
Close

Careers at WEKA

WEKA is growing fast! We’re looking for smart, dedicated, driven individuals that want to help the world’s most innovative organizations solve complex data management challenges.

Be part of something big at WEKA

We envision a future without compromise for our customers, so we’re creating a novel approach to data management that’s purpose-built for performance-intensive workloads in the cloud and AI era. We’re a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory.

We’ve raised $375M in capital and are backed by dozens of leading venture capital and strategic investors. Our flagship product, the WEKA® Data Platform, is helping hundreds of the world’s leading research organizations and enterprises—including 12 of the Fortune 50—to achieve first-to-market results with AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Our Culture

WEKA is growing fast! We’re looking for smart, dedicated, driven individuals that want to help the world’s most innovative organizations solve complex data management challenges.

“Everyone at WEKA works so hard, and we come together to do some really amazing things. It’s a rush to be surrounded by so much talent and brains here.”

– Sharon Summers,

“One of the things I love about working at WEKA is that my diverse perspective is really valued and celebrated.”

– Napua Leong,

87

Open Positions

The WEKA Way

Innovate

Innovation is in our DNA. We’re committed to developing next-generation data solutions for our customers that don’t require compromises and challenge the status quo.

Collaborate

We are aligned on a common vision and work together to find solutions. Individually, we move boulders. As a team, we move mountains.

Persist

We’re helping to solve our customers’ most complex data challenges, and we won’t stop until they’re successful.

Grow

We strive to hire the best people and help to grow and develop their skills so they can advance their careers.

Play

We make time to have fun, laugh, learn, and celebrate our successes together.

Thrive

We believe in balancing hard work with time to rest, restore, reflect, and savor a job well done.

Check Out Our Open Positions

Team Lead, Engineering

About The Position

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that make GPUs, AI, and other performance-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 most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably.

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 foster on time 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, 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, with exposure to open-source community practices.
  • Solid understanding of the Linux kernel, including performance implications of context switches, threads, memory allocations, page cache, etc.
  • Proficiency in Python or other modern scripting languages.
  • Hands-on experience in storage or related technical domains from current or previous roles.



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.



Location

U.S. Remote

Department

R&D

Check Out Our Open Positions