Staff Software Engineer, Inference Platform

Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with substantial individual contributor experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, ideally with Kubernetes.
• Strong track record of making sound architectural decisions for highly available, latency-sensitive systems at scale.
• Experience with security (certificates, TLS, mTLS).
• Experience optimizing latency, throughput, and efficiency in high-QPS systems. Experience with TTFT and tail-latency reduction is a strong plus.
• Strong proficiency in backend or systems languages such as Go or C++, with the expectation that you can contribute production code directly.
• Experience designing observability and reliability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response, and SLO-driven operations.
• Ability to influence senior engineers and cross-functional partners through technical credibility, communication, and judgment, especially within your domain and adjacent systems.
• Preferred Skills & Qualifications
• Experience with ML inference infrastructure, model serving systems, or GPU-accelerated workloads.

Location

• Sunnyvale or Toronto preferred

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