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Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Kubernetes & Slurm

New York, New York💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build control planes, backend services, and automation to provision, operate, and scale Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across a large-scale GPU fleet for AI training and inference.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Managed Kubernetes & Slurm)

Builds

Production-ready GPU environments for model training, inference, and deployment

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / AI Compute / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Go or Python, Kubernetes, Slurm, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, networking, storage, observability, CI/CD, incident response

Preferred skills

Kubernetes operators/controllers/CRDs, Slurm administration, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, Kustomize), GPU infrastructure, event-driven systems (gRPC, messaging), open source contributions

Technologies

Go, Python, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, Kustomize, gRPC

Responsibilities

Design and build backend services in Go or Python; Develop control plane services for cluster orchestration; Build distributed systems for automation and lifecycle management; Improve platform reliability, scalability, and security; Diagnose and resolve complex production issues; Collaborate with infrastructure and AI teams; Contribute to technical design, architecture, and on-call operations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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