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We drive product roadmaps, architecture, multi-functional alignment, and implementation across multiple open source and internal-facing products. We partner with executive leadership to align platform strategy and drive adoption of innovative approaches to software development across engineering teams. Our team mentors engineering talent and turns successful domain solutions into reusable platform capabilities used across the organization.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nBuild self-service SDKs, workflow templates, reference implementations, and a catalog of reusable agents, tools, and connectors. Prioritize automation by customer impact, frequency, operational risk, and encouraged reduction in human effort. \nTranslate operational intent into versioned, testable policies that define triggers, prerequisites, permitted actions, approval requirements, maintenance windows, capacity limits, and recovery or blocking issue paths. \nDefine common contracts for tools, state, events, and workflow execution. Establish versioning and compatibility standards, guide migration from fragmented implementations to shared services, and select the runtime and durable execution architecture.\nBuild agents that correlate hardware diagnostics, logs, metrics, topology, configuration, and incident history to investigate failures, propose evidence-backed diagnoses, and produce executable remediation plans. Enforce authorization independently of model output, retain action histories, and support human review, bounded retries, cancellation, and compensating actions.\nAutomate provisioning validation, node quarantine, workload-aware maintenance, repair, upgrades, and return to service. Integrate with Kubernetes, fleet management systems, and relevant schedulers and hardware interfaces.\nTackle fleet-scale problems including partial failures, duplicate events, stale state, conflicting remediations, noisy telemetry, control-plane bottlenecks, and correlated rack or cluster failures.\nEstablish shared evaluation, CI/CD, staged rollout, and observability capabilities across teams.\nDrive cross-team adoption through build reviews, migration plans, documentation, and hands-on partnership. Align infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and workload teams on shared priorities and contribution standards.\nWhat we need to see:\n8+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.\nBS in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a comparable field, or equivalent experience.\nExpert level knowledge of a systems programming language (Go, Python, and/or Rust) and a solid understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.\nStrong background in Linux system administration and management.\nExperience handling cluster orchestration tools, including Kubernetes and/or SLURM. \nUnderstanding of software development patterns dedicated to agents and current security practices for agentic systems. \nUnderstanding of performance, security, and reliability in complex distributed systems, including system-level architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, and state management.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with open source software projects, licensing, and governance.\nProficiency in understanding and managing large-scale distributed systems independently of cloud providers.\nDeep knowledge of datacenter operations and GPU hardware.\nAdvanced hands-on experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, SLURM).\nHands-on experience in Machine Learning Operations, Training, and/or Security fields. \nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. 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