Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

Quick Facts

Role: Staff Software Engineer – Compute Engineering

Description

Join the Compute Engineering organization building scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run the platform across private and public cloud. You will design and maintain software-defined, declarative infrastructure for compute at scale, improve the compute scheduler and resource-management systems, and build capacity forecasting and reporting tools. You’ll also write performance/load tests, collaborate with networking/orchestration/SRE teams, participate in design reviews and on-call rotations, and use AI tools to accelerate development and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain software-defined, declarative infrastructure for compute at scale, with build systems, services, and automation that are specified, documented, and testable.
• Build and improve compute scheduler and resource-management components including placement, prioritization, and preemption.
• Build tools for capacity data collection, forecasting, and reporting across private and public cloud.
• Write performance and load tests; help detect regressions in scheduling latency and throughput.
• Research and adopt open-source and commercial tools and methods to improve compute efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with networking, orchestration, and SRE teams on integration and design.
• Participate in design reviews and on-call rotations; contribute to post-incident improvements.
• Use AI tools to speed up development and analysis, and help identify where ML can improve capacity or placement decisions.
• Staff level: own a component or feature area end to end (scope + design), lead design discussions, mentor IC3 engineers, and identify risks before they become incidents.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience in software engineering, cloud, or infrastructure automation with a Bachelor’s degree (or 6+ years with a Master’s; or PhD with 3+ years relevant research/industry experience; or equivalent experience).
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Comfortable with virtualization and cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Working understanding of IP networking, block and file storage, and load balancers.
• Working understanding of internet protocols such as DNS, NTP, and HTTP.
• Ability to work independently across interconnected systems and investigate root causes.
• Experience integrating AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Integrity and honesty, aligned with company values.

Benefits

• Base pay guideline: $166,500 – $291,400 plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation, and benefits.
• Health plans, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.