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About the role
About Shaped
Shaped is the real-time retrieval engine for search, feeds and agents. We are on a mission to power every product and content experience with world-class search and recommendations.
Shaped is backed by top-tier investors like Y Combinator and Madrona; with executives from Meta, Google, Amazon and Uber. We’re building an elite team to define the future of how users discover what matters most.
We're excited to work with you. Come build the future of AI with us!
About the Role
We are hiring Software Engineers to join our team. This is an opportunity to join us in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up. You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
We're in the office 5 days a week. When unavoidable conflicts come up, we’re flexible. This is not a hybrid role.
What you will do
- Build planet scale distributed systems, optimizing for latency, throughput, and reliability across 1B+ users.
- Shape and evolve ShapedQL: our declarative query language; including semantics, validation, and query planning.
- Own and improve our client SDKs, from API design and ergonomics to versioning, docs, and examples.
- Work directly with the Product and Engineering leadership
- Write Python and Rust
- Iterate rapidly to improve Shaped's platform in response to customer needs
