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Systems Software Engineer

San Francisco Compute Co.
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/28/2025

About

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We're the San Francisco Compute Company. We're building the first real-time trading platform for compute. Everyone from startups to enterprises to research labs and individuals can buy and sell compute, from 1 to 1000 nodes for an hour to over a year. With our liquid market to resell unused compute hours, buyers no longer need to worry about contract lock-in and providers have less idle nodes. Over the next decade, we anticipate thousands of enterprises, governments, startups, and labs will be training and serving large models, and we’re building a team to scale our market.

About the Role

As a systems software engineer, you’ll be contributing to our Kubernetes 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. Some responsibilities of the role include :

  • Design, development and deployment of software systems built on top of Kubernetes to manage large scalable GPU clusters
  • Design and deployment of multi-tier high performance network attached storage systems

About You

  • You have built fault tolerant distributed systems before that can manage hardware resources at scale
  • You have experience writing Kubernetes operators and controllers
  • You’ve worked with GPU clusters (L40, A100, H100, MI300x, MI350x, etc.)
  • You appreciate and value good documentation
  • Some Nice to Haves

  • Experience with Go or Rust (3 years)
  • Experience with high performance storage systems (WEKA, VAST, Ceph, etc.)
  • 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
  • The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to any status protected by law.

    If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason, please reach out to us at team@sfcompute.com.

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