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Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $210,000–$210,000🗓 2026-04-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and scale customer-facing managed services and edge agents for AI infrastructure, ensuring high reliability and low resource footprint on customer VMs.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Systems Engineering)

Builds

Customer-facing platform services, lightweight edge agents, and telemetry pipelines for AI workloads.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Cloud Services / Systems Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Systems programming (Python, Go, Shell), Linux kernel metrics instrumentation, eBPF, Kubernetes internals, Helm packaging, on-call operational mindset, scalable design thinking, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

None explicitly stated

Technologies

Python, Go, Shell, eBPF, procfs, Kubernetes, Helm

Responsibilities

Build and scale core platform services from 0-to-1 and for growing traffic; Serve as subject matter expert on edge software and review agent architectures; Build and maintain lightweight, high-reliability agents deployed on customer VMs; Instrument low-level system metrics using eBPF and procfs; Own agent packaging and deployment via Helm charts; Design and evolve pull-based scraping logic for metrics collection; Partner with Control Plane, Storage, and SRE teams; Set patterns and frameworks, mentor senior engineers, and drive architecture decisions

Seniority

Staff, technical authority & cross-domain leadership

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