DevOps Director, SambaNova Systems
Enterprise AI Solutions
$225-260k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
Job no longer available
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$225-260k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess a deep technical understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, exceptional leadership skills, and a passion for driving operational excellence in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, release management, or a related role, with a proven track record of managing complex software delivery processes
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI)
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Director of DevOps to lead our DevOps initiatives and manage our infrastructure, deployment processes, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure seamless integration and timely delivery of our AI products and solutions
- Leadership and Strategy: Lead the DevOps team in the design, implementation, and management of scalable and reliable infrastructure. Collaborate closely with component teams to understand their roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables. Provide a comprehensive overview of interrelated components, identifying potential delays or bottlenecks
- Release Management: Own the release process, understanding various release mechanisms and their advantages/disadvantages. Develop and maintain tools to track readiness for release, ensuring all necessary tests are executed and requirements met. Ensure timely and predictable release cadence as well as owning SW product delivery to customers and product launches
- CI/CD Expertise: Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, advising teams on best practices for automated testing, deployment strategies, and monitoring. Evaluate and recommend testing frameworks that align with product requirements. Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and efficiency through automated solutions
- QA and Test strategy: Collaborate with SW leads to design the right testing strategy in CI/CD pipelines that ensure developer velocity, minimizes versioning and compatibility issues while ensuring delivery of high-quality, production SW. Identify testing gaps and drive engineering excellence. Establish and enforce SLAs within component teams regarding testing procedures. Define processes for responding to test failures, ensuring timely resolutions and clear communication with stakeholders
- Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with engineering teams, product teams and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to align on roadmaps, drive execution, and ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products
- Best Practices Development: Drive the adoption of industry best practices in testing, deployment, and release management across all engineering teams. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration
- Monitoring and Incident management: Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices to ensure system health. Lead post-incident reviews and drive efforts for continuous improvement to reduce incident frequency and impact
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advocate for and implement Infrastructure as Code principles to enhance deployment practices across development, integration, and production environments
Our take
SambaNova Systems is a computing startup focused on building machine learning and big data analytics platforms. Its software-defined analytics platform enables optimum performance for any ML training, inference, or analytics models.
In 2021, SambaNova Systems became the best-funded AI systems and services platform startup in the world. Its total funding reached more than $1 billion and its valuation climbed to more than $5 billion. The company has received backing from the likes of BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), among several others, and is expanding its offices in Palo Alto to accommodate this growth.
It's this support from premier investors in the industry that validates its mission to revolutionise the AI market by making it accessible to every organisation.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2026
$350m
SERIES E
Apr 2021
$650m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO in US
- Parental Leave
- Benefits (medical, dental and vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401k/Pensions
- Gym Access
- Flexible Working Hours
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Rodrigo Liang
(Co-Founder & CEO)They studied at Stanford before spending 7 years as a Hewlett-Packard Hardware Manager, and working as Director of Engineering at inSilicon and Afara Websystems. Having spent a combined 15 years as VP of Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation, they co-founded SambaNova in November 2017.
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