Software Engineer (New Grad)

zettabyte-space; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Zettabyte is hiring new grad software engineers to work across the full stack, from frontend interfaces to backend services and Kubernetes infrastructure. You will ship product features, operate cloud environments, and relentlessly dogfood our own product.

You’ll be building with Vue/Next.js/React on the frontend and Go on the backend, while owning deployments, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. This hybrid role is based in the Palo Alto area and welcomes new grads.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of experience — new grads welcome.
• Strong in at least one: frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue/React/Next.js), backend (Go, APIs), or infrastructure (Linux, Kubernetes, networking)

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end — from scoping with users to writing frontend and backend code, to deployment and monitoring in production
• Build interfaces in Vue, Next.js, or React
• Design and build backend services in Go
• Own and operate Kubernetes infrastructure — deployments, scaling, monitoring
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Administer and harden Linux systems; manage networking end-to-end
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and runbooks; run incident response and post-mortems
• Dogfood the product; use it daily, break it, file bugs, push the team to ship better software
• Automate repetitive tasks; script where possible
• Operate cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Use AI dev tools to move faster and ship more

Skills

Frontend

Backend

Infrastructure

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

About Us

At Zettabyte, we're building the software and systems that make large-scale AI infrastructure actually work. We help enterprises and sovereign nations deploy, manage, and optimize GPU clusters — from bare metal to cloud. Backed by the world's top hardware supply chain (Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron), we're scaling AI compute globally.

Why This Role Exists

We're hiring new grad software engineers to work across the entire stack — from the frontend interfaces enterprises use to manage GPU clusters, to the backend services and infrastructure that power them, to the Kubernetes clusters where AI actually gets trained and served. You'll pick up whatever needs to be done: shipping product features, writing backend services in Go, operating infrastructure, and dogfooding our product relentlessly. We need builders who can move fast across boundaries.

What You'll Do

• Own features end-to-end — from scoping the problem with users, to writing frontend and backend code, to deploying and monitoring in production

• Build fast, polished interfaces in Vue, Next.js, or React

• Design and build backend services in Go

• Own and operate Kubernetes infrastructure — deployments, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code

• Administer and harden Linux systems; own networking end-to-end (DNS, firewalls, load balancers, ingress, VPNs)

• Set up monitoring, alerting, and runbooks. Run incident response and post-mortems

• Dogfood our product relentlessly. Use it daily, break it on purpose, file detailed bugs, push the team to ship better software

• Automate everything. If you're doing it manually more than once, script it

• Operate cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

• Use AI dev tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to move faster and ship more

You'll Thrive Here If You

• 0–2 years of experience — new grads welcome, what matters is what you can do

• Strong in at least one of: frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue/React/Next.js), backend (Go, service design, APIs), or infrastructure (Linux, Kubernetes, networking)

• Comfortable working across the stack — you don't need to be an expert in everything, but you're not afraid to jump in

• Testing mindset — you enjoy breaking things and making sure code works

• Product instincts — you think about the user first and notice when something feels off

• High agency — when something is broken, you fix it; when something is missing, you build it

• Ship fast, iterate, communicate clearly

• Comfortable with ambiguity. Requirements change. Priorities shift. You thrive in that

Bonus Points

• Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) — strong bonus

• Deeper Kubernetes experience — RBAC, networking policies, operating clusters in production

• Terraform, Pulumi, or other IaC tools

• Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)

• Service meshes, gRPC, or message queues (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ)

• Design sensibility — Figma to pixel-perfect, or skip Figma entirely

• Familiarity with AI/ML tools and integrating LLMs into products

• Bare metal or on-prem experience

• Security hardening or pen-testing background

• Contributions to open source or notable side projects

• A homelab you can tell us about in unreasonable detail

Logistics & Compensation

• Competitive salary and equity based on experience

• Hybrid — 3 days in office, 2 days WFH; must be located in Palo Alto

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship