Cloud Platform Engineer - New Grad

SambaNova Systems • San Jose, TX

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About The Position

SambaNova is hiring a new graduate Cloud Platform Engineer to help operate and improve its production inference service, which serves models to customers on RDU accelerators. The Cloud Platform team supports deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, and incident response across regions in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

In this role, you will write automation and infrastructure code to help keep the inference service fast and available. You will build monitoring and dashboards, manage Kubernetes clusters and Terraform modules, help establish service in new regions, and participate in a shared on-call rotation after ramping up.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with Linux and command-line tools.
• Coursework or project experience in distributed systems, networking, or cloud computing.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with model-serving frameworks such as vLLM or SGLang.
• Internship experience in site reliability, DevOps, or backend infrastructure.
• Ownership of or contributions to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Build monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Manage cloud and on-premises infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters running inference workloads.
• Help automate setup of AI infrastructure in new regions.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to safely deploy new model versions and service updates.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation and incident response.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary, equity, and benefits.
• Employer covers 95% of employee medical insurance premiums and 77% of dependent premiums.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• Dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, basic life, voluntary life, and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for health care, limited purpose, and dependent care.
• Well-being benefits include a Headspace subscription, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level