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Staff Software Engineer, AI Inference Cloud

Seattle, Washington💼 Full-time💰 $209,100–$209,100🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-10-07
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Define and build architecture for cloud-based AI inference services, developing highly available, scalable Kubernetes orchestration and workload management systems.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (AI Inference Cloud Platform)

Builds

Cloud-based AI inference services, Kubernetes controllers, and platform capabilities for workload deployment, scheduling, and lifecycle management.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Kubernetes (controllers, operators, scheduling), Go/C++/Rust/Python, distributed systems, observability, incident response, architecture design, mentoring

Preferred skills

AI infrastructure, model serving, accelerator-backed workloads, PyTorch/Ray/vLLM/TensorRT-LLM, inference performance tuning

Technologies

Kubernetes, Go, C++, Rust, Python, PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM

Responsibilities

Define and build architecture for cloud-based AI inference services; Develop Kubernetes controllers and platform capabilities; Establish production practices for health validation and progressive rollout; Lead production readiness reviews and resolve complex infrastructure issues; Lead design reviews and mentor engineers

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence