# Software Engineer - Systems - Company: [Spiral]() - Location: New York City - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $200K – $275K - Posted: July 10, 2026 ## Job description ## 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 is a plus * Understanding of cutting-edge ML infrastructure stack (e.g. PyTorch, CUDA) is also a plus * Experience with Rust is a bonus * Willingness to work **in-person** at our NYC, SF, or London office ## Apply [Apply on Spiral]() Canonical job page: