Elixir Engineer (Full Time)
Strong Compute
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Mar 12, 2025
We’re designing a fault-tolerant control plane that makes AI compute feel seamless, distributed, and incredibly efficient. If you’re passionate about Elixir, high-scale distributed systems, and real-time infrastructure, this is for you.
What you’ll do
Build highly available Elixir-based control systems for scheduling, monitoring, and scaling AI workloads
Develop fault-tolerant distributed systems for orchestration, state management, and billing
Integrate multiple clouds, on-prem clusters, and networking layers into a unified AI infrastructure
Optimize real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures
Implement security best practices in authentication, encryption, and API access control
Work closely with AI researchers to create developer-friendly interfaces and APIs
What we’re looking for
✅✅ Deep experience with Elixir, Erlang or Gleam and OTP (or similar functional programming with paskell, scala, f# etc.) for distributed and fault-tolerant systems
✅✅ Experience building event-driven architectures (examples include RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS, etc.)
✅✅ Strong understanding of distributed databases and state management (PostgreSQL, ETS, Mnesia, Redis)
✅✅ Knowledge of cloud and multi-cloud integrations (AWS, GCP, Azure, neoclouds)
✅✅ Experience with securing Elixir applications
Nice to haves:
✅ Understanding of AI/ML compute environments (GPUs, CUDA, NCCL, Slurm, Horovod)
✅ DevOps experience
Our culture🚀
We move fast. We ship weekly—new features, improvements, and fixes go live fast. Our infra runs cluster scale up tests daily.
👥 We test big. Every month, we stress test with large groups of users face to face, get real-world feedback, and iterate rapidly.
💻 We build together. Weekend hackathons push boundaries, drive innovation, and help us level up as a team.
🔄 We iterate relentlessly. Direct user feedback shapes our roadmap—we release, test, refine, and keep moving.
✈️ We travel when needed. Engineers may travel between SF and Sydney to run events, attend conferences, and meet with clients.
📍 Location: SF or Sydney (OG startup house vibe, great food, late nights, all the GPUs)
Want to get to know us first? Attend one of our upcoming events.