Backend Engineer - Kubernetes & GPU Cluster Automation

TensorWave Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance for

Company Health Savings Account

Short/Long Term Disability Insurance

Life and Voluntary Insurance

Pet & Legal Insurance

Flexible PTO

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

401(k)

Job summary

TensorWave Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer (Back-end) to join our platform team.

You will own end-to-end automation of provisioning, configuring, and operating large-scale GPU clusters across bare metal, Kubernetes, and Slurm environments, building tooling and pipelines for hundreds of GPU nodes. This is a hands-on role working closely with cross-functional partners to support business objectives while upholding our standards for excellence, collaboration, and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 3+ years writing production Go.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, including informers and work queues, controller-runtime and client-go, CRDs, custom controllers, and operators.
• Experience building Kubernetes Operators.
• Experience building gRPC and REST APIs in Go at production scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain fully automated pipelines for provisioning bare metal GPU clusters from zero to production.
• Automate Slurm and Kubernetes cluster lifecycle—bootstrapping, upgrades, node provisioning, and decommissioning at scale.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure for GPU node configuration, including drivers and firmware.
• Own cluster validation pipelines, automating health checks and GPU burn-in tests.
• Build day-2 operations automation, including node remediation, rolling upgrades, and automated drain/cordon workflows.
• Write and maintain runbooks and documentation to enable reliable, repeatable operations.
• Own the full observability stack for automation services, provisioning pipelines, and cluster health systems.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes internals

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Loki

gRPC

REST APIs

Bare metal provisioning

DevOps automation

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Argo Workflows

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

TensorWave Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer (Back-end) to join our platform team.

You will own end-to-end automation of provisioning, configuring, and operating large-scale GPU clusters across bare metal, Kubernetes, and Slurm environments, building tooling and pipelines for hundreds of GPU nodes. This is a hands-on role working closely with cross-functional partners to support business objectives while upholding our standards for excellence, collaboration, and impact.