Careers at WEKA

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA 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 lead our Filesystem Engineering Team in Israel.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and deep technical supervision to engineers working on our distributed, high-scale, cutting-edge filesystem cluster.
• Lead and mentor engineers to ensure 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 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.
• At least 2-3 year in a management or leadership role.
• 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.

The WEKA Way

• We are Accountable: We take full ownership, always—even when things don’t go as planned. We lead with integrity, show up with responsibility 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 welcome challenges and embrace debates as opportunities for growth.
• We are Collaborative: We lift each other up to succeed collectively. We’re team-oriented, empathetic, and transparent. Together, we’re unstoppable.
• We are Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We listen, prioritize their success, and act with their best interests in mind. When our customers win, we win.