Focal Systems is a Silicon Valley-based startup backed by top investors, focused on retail AI.
We are a deep-learning-first company processing hundreds of millions of images daily across global retail locations.
Our team is tight-knit, with professionals from top universities and tech companies.

What You Will Do:

Own the design and operation of production platform on GCP: Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, object storage.
Drive cost and latency reductions through infrastructure and application-level optimizations.
Participate in incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning.

What You Need to Be Successful:

5+ years building and operating production backend systems on a cloud platform (GCP preferred).
Hands-on experience with stateful systems like Kafka or MySQL under load.
Proficiency in Python for backend services and debugging.

Why Focal Systems:

Strong mission and values, with a focus on automating retail.
Exceptional team and outstanding partners including top global retailers.
Competitive salary, stock options, and benefits including PTO and education grants.

Focal Systems

Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail AI solutions, automating and optimizing brick-and-mortar retail using deep learning computer vision. They are a tightly-knit startup with a global team headquartered in San Francisco, processing hundreds of millions of images daily across tens of thousands of stores.

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