Active3mo ago

Software Engineer - Systems

Spiral·📍 London, England, United Kingdom

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FULL TIME

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On-site

Experience

5+ years

Salary

£150K/yr

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This job's pay (£150,000 a year at the midpoint) is higher than about 25% of 30 salary-listed Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom in the last 12 months; their median is £232,500.

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About Spiral Spiral builds a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams, on top of the open source Vortex file format. Our users are AI/ML researchers and AI infra engineers developing models in complex domains, such as weather & climate, financial, time-series, genomics, point-clouds, videos, and images. They spend their days waiting on data loaders, writing video or sensor data pipelines, and watching expensive GPUs sit idle on I/O. We make that pain go away. What we're looking for: We’re looking for exceptional engineers with deep experience in low-level, high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems. 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code Strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming Proven track record in performance engineering Familiarity with tools like Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Clickhouse, or DuckDB

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Source: Spiral's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 3 Nov 2026
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5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code Strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming Proven track record in performance engineering Familiarity with tools like Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Clickhouse, or DuckDB is a plus Understanding of cutting-edge ML infrastructure stack (e.g

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