Platform Infra Engineer (Rust/C++) for Distributed Systems

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 440,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

SpaceXAI in Palo Alto is seeking a talented systems programmer to design, build, and optimize a large-scale distributed system powering one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters. You will dive into the low-level stack, profiling and tuning across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems to achieve peak performance.

You will collaborate on hardware-software co-design, maintain scalable code, and develop tools to boost team productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience in systems programming with low-level stack exposure.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of OS internals and networking.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system powering a massive supercomputing cluster.
• Profile, debug, and optimize performance across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems.
• Collaborate on hardware-software co-design to push AI training boundaries.
• Maintain and improve codebase; develop tools to boost team productivity.

Skills

Systems programming

Kubernetes expertise

Networking fundamentals

Debugging skills

Tools

Linux kernel debugging tools (perf, gdb, strace, Wireshark)

Docker

containerd

Job description

SpaceXAI in Palo Alto is seeking a talented systems programmer to design, build, and optimize a large-scale distributed system powering one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters. You will dive into the low-level stack, profiling and tuning across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems to achieve peak performance.

You will collaborate on hardware-software co-design, maintain scalable code, and develop tools to boost team productivity.