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Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

Bellevue, WA, US💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$275,000🗓 2026-05-13 → 2026-09-03

Core

Design and operate the core orchestration platform (SUNK/Slurm on Kubernetes) to manage AI training and inference workloads at scale across massive GPU clusters.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

Builds

Kubernetes-native orchestration platform (SUNK) and managed services for AI workloads

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Go, Kubernetes internals, Slurm internals, distributed systems design, cloud-native development, technical strategy, cross-team architecture

Preferred skills

Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, Argo Workflows, GPU-based applications, ML pipelines, scheduling concepts (quota enforcement, pre-emption), reliability practices (SLOs, post-incident reviews), AI infrastructure

Responsibilities

Define architectural direction for the orchestration platform, own critical parts of the platform, drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling and scaling, mentor senior engineers, establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability

Seniority

Staff, technical leader & strategy

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