Staff Software Engineer, Inference

• 8–12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms
• Proven experience leading cross-team technical initiatives impacting multiple services or organizations
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or C++
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and performance optimization
• Experience designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput systems with strict P95/P99 latency requirements
• Hands-on experience with inference systems, including batching or micro-batching strategies, caching, and memory optimization
• Experience improving system performance using metrics-driven approaches (e.g., latency, throughput, utilization)
• Familiarity with mixed precision (BF16, FP8) and streaming inference workloads

• Experience with inference frameworks such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe
• Experience with GPU systems and performance optimization (CUDA, NCCL, RDMA, NUMA, GPU interconnects)
• Experience leading multi-team or org-level technical initiatives
• Exposure to large-scale AI/ML infrastructure or hyperscale cloud environments

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