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Staff Software Engineer- AI Workload Orchestration

Bellevue, WA, US💼 Full-time💰 $188,000–$275,000🗓 2026-05-27 → 2026-09-03

Core

Technical leader defining and evolving architecture for Kubernetes-native orchestration of AI workloads across large GPU clusters.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (IC5), hands-on IC with strategic influence

Builds

AI Workload Orchestration Platform (admission, scheduling, governance for training and inference)

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Go, Kubernetes internals, distributed systems, system architecture, cross-team leadership, operational excellence

Preferred skills

Kueue, Volcano, Ray, AI infrastructure, HPC, scheduling concepts (fairness, pre-emption), SLO definition, open-source contributions

Technologies

Kubernetes, Kueue, Volcano, Ray, Go

Responsibilities

Own technical vision and architecture for major portions of the platform; Design scalable orchestration primitives; Lead cross-team architecture reviews; Define platform standards for reliability and observability; Resolve systemic performance and scalability issues; Mentor senior engineers

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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