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Eventual

Eventual

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jun 24, 2025

About Eventual

Every breakthrough AI application, from foundation models to autonomous vehicles, relies on processing massive volumes of images, video, and complex data. But today’s data platforms (like Databricks and Snowflake) are built on top of tools made for spreadsheet-like analytics, not the petabytes of multimodal data that power AI. As a result, teams waste months on brittle infrastructure instead of conducting research and building their core product.

Eventual was founded in 2022 to solve this. Our mission is to make querying any kind of data, images, video, audio, text, as intuitive as working with tables, and powerful enough to scale to production workloads. Our open-source engine, Daft, is purpose-built for real-world AI systems: coordinating with external APIs, managing GPU clusters, and handling failures that traditional engines can’t. Daft already powers critical workloads at companies like Amazon, Mobileye, Together AI, and CloudKitchens.

We’ve assembled a world-class team from Databricks, AWS, Nvidia, Pinecone, Github Copilot, Tesla, and more, quadrupling our size within a year. With backing from Y Combinator, Caffeinated Capital, Array.vc, and top angels from the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity, we’re looking to double the team now. Join us—Eventual is just getting started.

Please note we are looking for someone who is willing and able to come into our San Francisco office in the Mission district 4 days / week.

Your Role:

As part of Engineering Leadership, you're passionate about building the future of AI and multimodal data processing. We are looking for leadership across our Systems and Product teams. You will lead the charge to innovate and scale Eventual's product with enterprise-grade correctness, and scalability, as well as top notch user experience.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Get experience building teams from the ground up and successfully managing large teams of 10-15 engineers.

  • Build a robust team by attracting and hiring top talent and growing individuals.

  • Design and implement processes to help the team scale and be productive, while also allowing for agility.

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership on multiple fronts (architecture / design, code reviews, quality assurance, and incident management) as well as set long-term technical visions and goals for the team.

  • Be responsible for ensuring enterprise-grade correctness, resiliency, availability, and scalability.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to set the team's directions and define the roadmap.

  • Own and drive execution toward clear objectives with measurable key results.

  • Promote a strong culture of engineering excellence and customer focus.

What we look for:

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.

  • 4+ years of managing technical teams.

  • BS or higher, in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software (e.g. physics or math).

  • Proven track record of successfully launching multiple complex products or systems.

  • A history of success in attracting top talents and supporting engineers.

  • Ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment and lead and drive complex operational initiatives.

  • Great taste of product and passionate about building excellent user experiences.


Perks & Benefits

  • In-person tight knit team with 4x a week in office

  • Competitive comp and startup equity

  • Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

  • Commuter benefit

  • Team building events & poker nights

  • Health, vision, and dental coverage

  • Flexible PTO

  • Latest Apple equipment

  • 401k plan with match!