Senior Staff Software Engineer, Compute Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on Compute Engineering

Description

Join Compute Engineering to build the scheduling, capacity, and performance systems that run the platform across private and public cloud. You will design compute scheduling and resource-management (placement, prioritization, preemption, fairness), build capacity forecasting into reservation and placement decisions, and establish performance testing with SLOs for scheduling latency and throughput. The role also applies AI/ML for forecasting, anomaly detection, and placement optimization, while maintaining declarative infrastructure and owning production reliability and post-incident improvements.

Requirements

• 12+ years of related software engineering experience (or 8+ years with a Master’s, or PhD with 5+ years) with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI into work processes and decision-making (beyond using AI tools)
• Deep experience designing multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS at enterprise scale (distributed systems, large-scale data systems, APIs, microservices)
• Experience designing or operating large-scale schedulers/resource managers (Kubernetes, Slurm, or equivalents)
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java
• Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, and load testing at scale
• Hands-on production ML experience (models, feature pipelines, or ML platforms)
• Infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible)
• Comfort with virtualization and cloud infrastructure across private and public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Working understanding of IP networking, block/file storage, and load balancers
• Ability to work independently across interconnected systems and investigate root causes
• Ability to influence across teams and geographies without direct authority
• Clear communication with senior leaders, customers, and engineers

Benefits

• Base pay range: $190,900–$334,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation, and benefits
• Health plans, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, ESPP, matching donations
• Flexible time away plan and family leave programs
• Work persona options: flexible, remote, or required in-office depending on role and location