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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,

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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.

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Team Lead, Control

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 Fortune 50, reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about helping our customers overcome complex data challenges to accelerate their innovation and help grow their businesses. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey if you share our passion.


As a Team Lead, you’ll: 

As Team Lead in the Control Group, you’ll need to combine team leadership, team building, technological problem solving, direct and matrix management, risk management, and career development of direct response to empower our most valuable asset – our engineers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Grow the teams and manage the career development of team members.
  • Be a direct address for everything related to team activities and members.
  • Own knowledge domains within the product's control plane
  • Lead the design and architecture of critical features in the product
  • Take initiatives within the group to improve our products, you will be very encouraged to invent new ideas
  • Work closely with product management to prioritize work items and understand their business value
  • Assume nothing - constantly revisit how we work and whether our productivity is perfectly tuned.
  • Promote and participate in beautiful designs, efficient code, and collaborative code reviews.
  • Own and promote quality in every part of the team’s deliveries and activities.
  • Be a manager - recruit, nurture and manage the retention of team members.
  • Be a mentor - provide ongoing feedback, both good and constructive
  • Be a leader - demonstrate a can-do attitude, and promote company goals.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with managing software development teams
  • 5+ years of experience in C/C++ development
  • Experience with development over Linux, including low-level User-Mode OS knowledge.
  • Experience with Containers
  • A record of Excellence in previous roles

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in the storage industry, databases, or other infrastructure.
  • Experience with Control plane of other appliances
  • Experience working with AWS or other public clouds.
  • Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems, databases, or others.
  • Familiarity with storage concepts (SMB, NFS, S3, SSD, NVMe, Linux filesystems).
  • Familiarity with clustered environment products and design and container
  • Experience with leading a development Group (2nd level management), and remote employees oversees

 

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

Tel Aviv, Israel

Department

R&D

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