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Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

Bellevue, WA💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$185,000🗓 2026-07-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and operate the orchestration platform (SUNK/Slurm on Kubernetes) to enable AI training and inference 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

AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

Kubernetes, Slurm, Go, Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, Argo Workflows

Responsibilities

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

Seniority

Staff, technical leadership & strategy

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