Principal/Staff HPC Network Engineer

The San Francisco Compute Company • San Francisco, CA

5h • Onsite

About The Position

GPU clusters are some of the most performant computers on the planet. Even smaller clusters by today’s standards would have ranked in the TOP500 five years ago. Our infrastructure team is responsible for architecting and deploying new clusters around the world and keeping them running smoothly. You’ll participate in on-call rotation, fix issues when they arise, and lean into automation to enable deployments at scale. We’re a small but ambitious team so you’ll be an early contributor helping to shape culture, mentor junior engineers, and learn from our customers.

Requirements

• You will have 10+ years of experience with hands-on management or architecture with network for at least one GPU cluster in the past (ideally a cluster with >1k GPU’s but not required)
• You deeply understand the fundamentals of Ethernet (RoCEv2) and/or InfiniBand networks in CLOS/fat-tree topologies
• You have built HPC network architectures (eBGP, fat-tree, VXLAN, MCLAG, etc.)
• The idea of implementing zero-touch provisioning for a large multi-layer network excites you (you embrace automation)
• You appreciate, value and generate good documentation
• You have the ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers
• You’re open to coming in to our San Francisco office 3-4 days per week

Nice To Haves

• You understand data center concepts including power, cooling and how to engage with colo providers
• You have experience with Linux systems administration including managing kernel drivers and tuning the network stack
• You have experience with Linux virtualization (KVM, QEMU, libvirt, etc.)
• You’ve had exposure to containers and Kubernetes operators

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotation
• Fix issues when they arise
• Lean into automation to enable deployments at scale
• Help to shape culture
• Mentor junior engineers
• Learn from our customers

Benefits

• Generous equity grant
• Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
• Visa Sponsorships
• Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits
• Retirement matching
• We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
• Medical, dental & vision
• We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
• Time off
• We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
• Parental leave
• We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
• Daily lunch
• We cover lunch daily for employees
• Unlimited office book budget
• You can buy as many books for the office as you want

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed