SambaNova
Director, Software Engineering
San Jose, California, United States · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$245k-$325kDetected 14 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentKubernetesHelmDevOpsMachine LearningLLMsLLMOpsLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- SambaNova is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for the SambaStack platform.
- Our cloud-agnostic, enterprise-grade inference serving platform enables seamless deployment, management, and scaling of foundation model workloads at production scale.
- You will be responsible for the growth and effectiveness of your team, the technical quality of their output, and driving key engineering initiatives while continuing to contribute directly on the platform's most important challenges.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and inspire a software team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Own hiring for your team: define roles, assess candidates, and build a diverse, high-performing engineering organization.
- Drive the career development of your engineers through regular 1:1s, meaningful feedback, and clear growth plans.
- Partner with Product, ML, QA, and DevOps leadership to align team priorities with broader organizational objectives.
- Participate in and lead design reviews, providing authoritative technical guidance on major features and cross-cutting changes.
- Proactively identify and drive the resolution of systemic risks: performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading and managing engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Submission Guidelines
- Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
- SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Skills
- Experience running iterative engineering processes in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with AI inference serving, orchestration, and the infrastructure challenges of LLM workloads at production scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tooling, including Operators and Helm Charts.
- Background in ML application optimization and productionization.
- Familiarity with AI coding assistants and the developer tooling ecosystem.
- Experience at a high-growth AI infrastructure company.
- The era of pervasive AI has arrived.
- SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations.
Compensation
- Base Pay Range
- $245,000 - $325,000 USD
- SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
Benefits
- SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
- We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
- We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
- Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
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