Software Architect - SambaStack

12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a role with organization-wide technical influence.

Proven track record of owning large-scale distributed systems architectures end-to-end from design to production.

Expertise building backend systems in Python, Go, or Rust.

Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm Charts, and cluster-scale resource management.

Strong command of distributed systems principles: consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and performance at scale.

Demonstrated experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving cross-functional alignment.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Able to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions to both engineering and non-technical audiences.

Track record of mentoring more junior engineers and elevating team-wide engineering quality.

Deep familiarity with AI inference serving, orchestration, and the infrastructure challenges of LLM workloads at production scale.

Experience designing systems for custom or novel hardware accelerators (e.g., dataflow architectures, GPUs, TPUs).

Background in ML application optimization and productionization.

Experience building cloud-native platforms for enterprise customers with stringent SLA and compliance requirements.

Familiarity with AI coding assistants and the developer tooling ecosystem.

Experience at a high-growth AI infrastructure company.

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Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.