Senior Software Engineer, Compute - Remote - United States

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The Compute team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer that thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team’s challenges break into 2 domains, which we consider platform engineering and cluster engineering.

Platform Engineering: Higher-level orchestration of both compute capacity and workload primitives to support our multi-cloud, multi-region, deployments. A subset of current focuses include:

• Software automation that creates, manages, and destroys clusters in our fleet.
• APIs and controllers that support multi-cluster deployment and scheduling mechanics.
• Core SDKs that enable controller development in the larger organization.
• Software that codifies out-of-cluster ancillary concerns such as network configurations and managed services.

Cluster Engineering: Intra-cluster engineering problems involving balancing performance, efficiency, and stability. A subset of current focuses include

• Detection of node-level performance characteristics and making availability decisions based on the data.
• Schedulers that support more efficient packing of resources along with reactive rescheduling on the basis of changing compute availability.
• Kubernetes controllers that offer APIs in the cluster and perform reconciliation to reach a desired state.
• Cluster upgrades, both mechanical process concerns and automation.

As a member of the Compute team, your work will span these 2 domains, which are rich with challenging infrastructure and software engineering problems. Your work will directly impact hundreds of …