Platform Engineer

About the Company

Hebbia is an AI platform for investors and bankers that generates alpha and drives upside. Backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for some of the world's largest asset managers, including BlackRock and KKR.

Responsibilities

• Own critical system components by turning complex requirements into robust, scaled solutions
• Build and iterate on high-scale document build systems to enable constant time latency for indexing
• Architect and implement performance-tuning solutions to minimize latency and maximize throughput
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go
• Deep understanding of scalable system design, performance optimization, and resilience engineering
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Working experience with Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and/or Redis
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration platforms like Airflow, Temporal, or Prefect
• Proven experience enabling observability patterns
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems leveraging etcd or Apache Zookeeper
• Frequent user of AI products like Cursor or Claude Code during the development lifecycle