Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production
• A history of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language (for example, Python, Rust, Go, or Java)
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across teams or stakeholders

Nice to Haves

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, not including internships
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure such as GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium, and associated networking like NCCL
• Low-level systems experience, such as Linux kernel tuning or eBPF
• Background in security or privacy engineering best practices
• Prior experience as a technical lead or mentor for other engineers

What You'll Be Doing

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
• Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation other engineers and teams build on
• Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces
• Partner with research and product teams to understand their infrastructure and compute needs, and turn them into technical designs
• Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow
• Set technical strategy and standards for your team's infrastructure
• Build and improve operational processes such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, so the team learns from every incident
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues