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# Senior Software Engineer (Tools) at Ocient Inc.

- **Company:** Ocient Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-/am9icG9zdDr1ivF4Z83dxwMxjYehfXDd

## Job description

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: 100% Remote (US Based Only)

- We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time* Hiring Manager: Senior Engineering Manager Estimated salary range: $165,000 to $190,000
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Job Description: Ocient is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Tools & Developer Platform team to own and evolve sophisticated test automation and analysis infrastructure while contributing broadly to developer experience and tooling.

Responsibilities:

- Build automation and services (primarily using Python) to operate and test the Ocient distributed database system and integrations
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and build the tooling to fulfill those needs
- Maintain and extend existing tooling for performance testing and analysis and the automation that keeps tests reproducible
- Produce documentation for future maintainers and concise runbooks for developers

Ideal Qualifications:

- Demonstrated growth mindset and ability to learn new languages and systems rapidly
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 4+ years professional software engineering experience
- Strong systems thinking and software fundamentals
- Comfortable working in Linux, with shell tooling, debugging tools, and CI systems
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

- Strong familiarity with advanced Python features and typing
- Data gathering and analysis skills, a scientific mindset is a plus
- Experience operating and/or performance tuning a distributed database system
- Familiarity managing test infrastructure, including infrastructure as code tools

Technical Assessment Notice: Candidates will be required to download and install the HackerRank Desktop Application to complete coding assessments and technical interviews as part of our hiring process.

## About Ocient Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ocient delivers OcientAIQ, a unified data platform that brings trusted agentic AI directly to petabyte-scale enterprise data without moving it across fragmented systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed) – total funding $156.5M
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Greg Papadopoulos (Co-Founder & VP of Customer Success & Quality), Joe Jablonski (Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Data & AI software, large-scale data analytics, agentic AI infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B Enterprise – organizations with massive datasets (government, national security, financial services, telecom, energy)
- Mission: “To deliver trusted agentic AI solutions that work in production at petabyte scale – helping the organizations doing the most consequential work in the world realize the full value of their data.”

## Products & Services
- **OcientAIQ™**: Complete ecosystem for building and deploying trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale. Brings AI directly to data with built-in governance, compliance, and deployment options. Handles structured and semi-structured data in a single platform. (SaaS / platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$60M; total funding $156.5M (Series A, Series B, debt financing)
- **Notable Investors**: Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Buoyant Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount 185 (+33.3% YoY); actively hiring with 10 open positions (+900% YoY in job postings); remote-first global workforce across 11 countries; carbon-neutral operations including LEED-certified data center; LinkedIn followers grew 29.6% YoY

## Competitive Advantages
- Founded by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM) – deep domain expertise in petabyte-scale data systems
- Purpose-built for organizations that cannot afford AI errors (national security, critical infrastructure)
- Unified platform eliminates data movement, reducing cost and latency at extreme scale
- Built-in trust and compliance controls for regulated industries
- Remote-first, carbon-neutral culture attracts top engineering talent

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling OcientAIQ ecosystem for enterprise adoption
- Expanding agentic AI capabilities (trusted, production-ready)
- Continuing international growth (India, Canada, Europe, Singapore)
- Heavy investment in engineering talent: open roles in distributed systems, ML, geospatial, SRE, QA automation, product management

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Craft-driven, autonomous, collaborative, inclusive, and ethical. “We are industry-leading experts … driven to deliver the best and brightest solutions.”
- **Work model**: Remote-first – team distributed across 11 countries
- **Impact**: Work on problems that protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy
- **Compensation**: Sr. Software Engineer ~$172K/year; Software Engineer I ~$97K/year (LinkedIn data)
- **Perks**: Carbon-neutral operations, LEED-certified data center, commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goals
- **Rating**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) – culture and career score 4.2, work-life 4.1
- **Notable alumni destinations**: Google, Amazon, MongoDB, Citadel Securities

## Sources
1. [ocient.com/careers](https://ocient.com/careers/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ocient](https://linkedin.com/company/ocient)
3. [ocient.com/about-ocient](https://ocient.com/about-ocient/)
4. [jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-](https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-)

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