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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Petra Labs, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Databases, Search Technologies, Build Management
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-petra-labs-8133396

## About the Role

* Can quickly and effectively decompose large, ambiguous problems and systems
 * Have built real products before and are comfortable owning large technical surfaces
 * Have strong fundamentals in system design and databases, with good judgment around when to move fast versus build for scale

## Description

* We hire a small number of extremely talented people and give them as much ownership and autonomy as possible
 * We are truth-seeking. Transparent, direct discourse is encouraged. We challenge existing beliefs in pursuit of always getting better
 * We work hard and are unapologetic about the level of effort required to build a generational company

What You'll Do

 * Define and build product end-to-end. Deeply understand user needs to iterate on, deploy, and scale software, with extreme ownership
 * Operate at the frontier. We tackle ambiguous, unsolved problems in AI search that require running experiments to uncover novel insights
 * Design and build large-scale systems, data models, and infrastructure


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