CareerPlan

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, usFull-time$191k–$334k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and evolve compute scheduling, capacity, and performance systems for private and public cloud platforms, integrating AI/ML for forecasting and optimization.

Role type

Senior Staff IC software engineer (compute infrastructure)

Builds

Compute scheduler, resource management systems, capacity models, and software-defined infrastructure

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, Python, Java, distributed systems design, capacity planning, performance engineering, ML in production, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, IP networking

Preferred skills

ML-driven scheduling, internet protocols (DNS, NTP, HTTP), release management

Technologies

Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Ansible

Responsibilities

Design multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS systems, build capacity models and forecasts, establish performance testing and SLOs, apply AI/ML to placement optimization, maintain declarative infrastructure, partner on cross-team designs, guide technical decisions, own production reliability, mentor engineers

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship