Staff Engineer, Clusters & AI Infra (Kubernetes)

Theory Ventures

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Sail builds the world's most efficient software for inference and agent hosting. You’ll be an early engineer on our Clusters team in San Francisco, writing code to provision and manage large fleets of compute across clouds.

You’ll design scalable, robust systems with focus on high availability, GPU utilization, and self-serve operations, while exploring autonomous remediation and bare-metal provisioning. Join a tight-knit team in SF for a pivotal early-stage role.

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes and related technology.
  • You take a product-focused approach to platform work and care deeply about building robust, scalable, ergonomic solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Build a reliable system to manage and share compute across clouds.
  • Implement scheduling algorithms that maximize GPU utilization.
  • Design highly available systems that route around hardware faults and swap in hot spares for a pristine user experience.
  • Implement wraparound monitoring and alerting to ensure high availability.
  • Own future directions for Clusters (autonomous remediation, self-serve ops, bare-metal provisioning).

Skills

Kubernetes
Platform engineering
Robust design
User ergonomics

Tools

k3k
vCluster

Job description

Sail builds the world's most efficient software for inference and agent hosting. You’ll be an early engineer on our Clusters team in San Francisco, writing code to provision and manage large fleets of compute across clouds.

You’ll design scalable, robust systems with focus on high availability, GPU utilization, and self-serve operations, while exploring autonomous remediation and bare-metal provisioning. Join a tight-knit team in SF for a pivotal early-stage role.

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