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Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations)

San Francisco or Palo Alto, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architecting and optimizing the control plane and data plane for a distributed computing platform that scales ML applications from laptops to clusters.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Platform Infrastructure)

Builds

Cloud-native infrastructure for Ray clusters across diverse cloud and on-premises environments

Domain

Distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, AI/ML workloads

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes orchestration, Go, Python, Linux kernel, networking, distributed systems architecture, system optimization, technical governance

Preferred skills

accelerator integration (GPUs, TPUs), container management, cross-functional leadership

Technologies

Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Ray

Responsibilities

Define multi-year technical roadmap for cluster orchestration services; design high-performance control plane components; establish organization-wide standards for reliability and observability; direct strategy for accelerator and container management; resolve deep technical debt; partner with ML experts to translate market needs into infrastructure foundations

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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