Golden is the future of knowledge. We are in pursuit of the most useful
(complete, correct, and valuable) knowledge graph in history.
Our vision is to enable every decision to be made with reliable and complete
data, whether that be sales prospecting for your CRM, learning about a newly
discovered building material, or discovering which companies are adopting and
applying the newest developments in A.I..
Golden is backed by the world's greatest venture capital investors and led by
serial entrepreneur and angel investor Jude Gomila.
The ideal candidate for this role is in need of a challenge and can chart
paths through the fog of unbounded problem space. They will be developing
their projects from conception through execution and launch, owning their
success metrics end-to-end.
**Role**
* Automate deployment of Golden’s containerized services
* Manage and control our cloud resources using Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS
* Architect infrastructure for cloud-native web applications and machine learning workloads
* Maintain third-party cloud software and services that Golden relies upon
* Implement and enforce cloud security best practices
* Manage domains, certificates, third party provider accounts and general site reliability
**What we are looking for**
* Infrastructure as Code and opinionated best practices. Terraform is preferred
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and their optimization
* Knowledge of container development, build and deployment strategies
* Awareness of end-to-end integration testing strategies and pitfalls (we use Cypress for smoke tests right now)
* Experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, ELB, SNS, SQS, Lambda
* Ownership of secrets management
* History of Shell scripting and system administration
* Proficiency in Python or other scripting language
* Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues within live cloud environments
* Contributions to architectural design, discussion and documentation of scalable systems
* Ownership of performance and reliability metrics for web applications
**You are**
* Self-motivated and well organized
* Aware of the latest trends in infrastructure management
* Comfortable describing the history of package managers for your stack of choice
* An expert on something
* A novice in many things
* Always willing to learn about something new
**Bonus Points**
* Knowledge of infrastructure testing and static analysis tools
* Serverless application development experience
* Machine Learning and AI exposure.
* Integration of Airflow, Papermill, and Python Notebooks.
* ElasticSearch tuning and maintenance knowledge.
* Postgres tuning and maintenance knowledge.
**Compensation**
* Generous base salary
* Equity (stock options)
* Healthcare Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
* 401k plan & matching
* Home office stipend
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive and are updated regularly
using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire
offers are made based on a job candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic
location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
**About Golden**
Golden is on a mission to map human knowledge and accelerate discovery and
education. We are building the world’s first self-constructing knowledge
database making it easier to explore and contribute to public and private
knowledge. Golden leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make
the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler. Golden is
venture-backed by a16z, Founders Fund, Gigafund and other top tier investors,
and is led by Jude Gomila, a founder of Heyzap (YC ‘09, acquired for $45
million in 2016) and investor in over 200 startups. To learn more about Golden
visit us at <https://golden.com>, check out our blog <https://golden.com/blog>
or join the conversation at @Golden
Golden focuses on Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence,
Knowledge Management, and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. Their
company has offices in San Francisco and Remote. They have a small team that's
between 11-50 employees. To date, Golden has raised $59.5M of funding; their
latest round was closed on October 2022.
You can view their website at <http://golden.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/golden) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/golden-recursion-inc/).
