# Senior Software Engineer – Network Observability

About Clockwork Systems Clockwork.io - Software Driven Fabrics to increase GPU cluster utilization Clockwork Systems was founded by Stanford researchers and veteran systems engineers who share a vision for redefining the foundations of distributed computing. As AI workloads grow increasingly complex, traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance, reliability, and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering cross-stack observability to catch and quickly resolve problems, workload fault tolerance to keep jobs running through failures, and performance acceleration that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion. To learn more, visitwww.clockwork.io. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the architecture, development, and scaling of a high-performance network monitoring and observability platform. This role will focus on building systems that provide deep visibility into RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP networks. The ideal candidate has strong experience in distributed systems, Linux networking, and modern observability stacks (e.g., Grafan

- **Id**: 4037165
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clockwork-senior-software-engineer-network-observability-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:14:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T20:53:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5193
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, AI Compute & Inference, High-Performance Computing

## Company

- **Id**: 39049
- **Name**: Clockwork
- **Domain**: clockwork.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clockwork-io>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 210000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **eBPF** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **HPC** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **NCCL** — Optional: yes
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: yes
- **Time Series** — Optional: yes
- **Wireshark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T20:53:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6; Filings 12m: 6

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 185
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T22:19:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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