Distributed Systems & Backend Engineer

Krea is a startup in San Francisco building browser-based AI creative tools for professional designers and creatives. We have a small team (~27) and millions of active users, having raised over $80M from top Silicon Valley investment firms. We are looking for talented engineers to tackle hard technical challenges while building a creative platform that big companies and startups will rely on.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed systems to process massive amounts of image, video, and 3D data, solving scaling bottlenecks.
• Learn ML engineering from world-class researchers on a small tight-knit team, contributing to foundational image, video, and world models from 0 to production.
• Work with huge Kubernetes GPU clusters; our main GPU cluster takes up an entire datacenter from our provider.

Tech Stack

• Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, and a rotating cast of data tools (e.g., DuckDB, massive relational DBs, PyArrow, etc.)

Requirements

• Excellent generalist engineer with strong backend experience and an intuition for systems design.
• Bonus points for experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and existing ML or data experience (but not required!). Cool side projects are a green flag.