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Posted: 2 years ago

San Francisco Compute Company

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Compute Company

Verified employer
Location

San Francisco, California, United States

On Site

Job type

Full-time

Industry

Software Engineering

Salary

<p>$170K – $300K</p>

01
Why This Role Matters

As a distributed systems software engineer, you’ll be working on our in-house resource orchestration system. This system coordinates state and access to hundreds (soon thousands) of GPU compute nodes in multi-tenant clusters spanning across multiple data centers.

02
How You'll Contribute
  • Design of distributed system architectures that enable high availability fault tolerant state management

  • Deployment automation and performance optimization of virtual machines running on bare metal that utilize GPU passthrough

  • Design and deployment of multi-tier high performance network attached storage systems

03
What Makes You a Great Fit
  • You have built fault tolerant distributed systems before that can manage hardware resources at scale

  • You enjoy creating self-correcting systems that contribute to hardware health and reliability

  • You have experience with Linux virtualization (Cloud Hypervisor, QEMU, libvirt, virtiofs, sr-iov, PCIe passthrough)

  • You appreciate and value good documentation

Some Nice to Haves

  • Experience with Rust (our VM orchestrator is written in Rust)

  • Experience with etcd

  • Experience with high performance storage systems (WEKA, VAST, Ceph, etc.)

04
Perks & Benefits
  • Unlimited office book budget: You can buy as many books for the office as you want. You’re encouraged to spend time during the workday reading!

  • Generous equity grant: Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

  • Retirement matching: We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

  • Medical, dental & vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

  • Time off: We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

  • Parental leave: We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

  • Daily lunch: We cover lunch daily for employees

  • Visa Sponsorships: Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Posted by San Francisco Compute Company

At a glance

Workplace

On Site · San Francisco, California, United States

Employment

Full-time

Industry

Software Engineering

Language

English

Posted

2 years ago

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