Senior Compute Platform Engineer

Stack AV; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stack AV in Pittsburgh is seeking a Senior Compute Platform Engineer to enhance their autonomous systems. You will be responsible for designing and operating high-scale systems that manage batch workloads, ensuring reliability and efficiency. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience, with strong skills in Kubernetes, Golang, and Python.

This role emphasizes collaboration and innovation, contributing significantly to the advancements in the trucking industry by utilizing cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proficiency developing in Golang and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate distributed systems for scheduling and executing large-scale batch workloads.
• Build and maintain compute platform abstractions.
• Develop and improve multi-tenant scheduling strategies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Golang

Python

Batch scheduling systems

Job description

Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting‑edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.

About the Role

The Compute Platform team is responsible for designing and operating the systems that orchestrate and scale batch and distributed workloads across our environments. You will work at the intersection of infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer experience–ensuring that complex workloads are reliable, efficient, and easy to run. As a Senior Compute Platform Engineer, you will design and operate high‑scale batch compute systems and workflow orchestration systems that power engineers across the company.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate distributed systems for scheduling and executing large‑scale batch workloads across Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and maintain compute platform abstractions.
• Optimize utilization of compute resources.
• Develop and improve multi‑tenant scheduling strategies.
• Improve reliability and fault tolerance of large‑scale distributed jobs and platform components.
• Collaborate with teams across the company to understand workload requirements and improve platform capabilities.
• Contribute to platform tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production grade environments.
• Proficiency developing in Golang and Python.
• Experience designing and operating large‑scale batch compute systems.
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills in complex distributed systems.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Experience with at least one batch scheduling system such as Kueue, Armada, Volcano, or Slurm.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.

Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV’s ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.