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 $275M 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 eight 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.
Work 4 WEKA
R&D
Sales
Sales
Marketing
Marketing
Customer Success
Customer Success
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Remote
Remote
UK
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, Protocols
About The Position
Weka is a fast-growing startup developing the world’s fastest and most scalable data platform. WEKA lives anywhere the data does, whether on-premises, in the public cloud, or in a hybrid environment, and was built from the ground up to meet the diverse needs of modern data workloads.
At Weka, we are constantly putting our technology and ourselves to the test to solve today’s biggest data storage challenges while enabling heightened productivity.
We currently enable Fortune500 companies to push the boundaries of what’s possible, achieve breakthrough innovations, and solve previously unsolvable problems. Want to join the ride?
What makes a Wekkie?
If you have a positive “can-do” attitude, a relentless curiosity about all things tech, and you thrive on pushing limits and breaking barriers, you’ll fit right in at Weka!
We’re a super friendly bunch who support each other, promote best practices, and we always encourage collaboration and sharing ideas. Even on rainy days, our sunny spirits shine through. And as we grow, we’re inviting those who are like us to join in the fun!
What you'll be doing:
As Team Lead in the development organization, 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.
As a Team Lead, you’ll:
- Leading the S3 protocol domain.
- Leading a team of experienced developers.
- Grow the team and manage the career development of team members.
- Be a direct address for everything related to team activities and members.
- Work closely with program management, product management, and other technical managers to lead the team’s deliverables from planning to release.
- Build and maintain the team's technical debt backlog and promote it into ongoing releases.
- Assume nothing - constantly revisit how we work and whether our productivity is perfectly tuned.
- Provide transparent progress and risk analysis.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with managing software development teams.
- 5+ years of experience in C/C++/ Python/ Go/ Rust development.
- Customer-facing experience.
- Experience with development over Linux, including low-level User-Mode OS knowledge.
- Experience with development of highly distributed systems.
Nice to have:
- Team leading experience in several teams.
- Experience in the storage industry, databases, or other infrastructure.
- 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 containers.
- Familiarity with network concepts and protocols (UDP, TCP, InfiniBand, Ethernet, RDMA).
