Cloud Platform Architect, SambaNova Systems
$245-325k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
Open for applications
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$245-325k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust)
- Expertise with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) in production environments - pods, operators, CRDs, CNIs, etc
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code with the ability to manage complex, multi-cloud environments
- Strong proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with a solid understanding of the core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing) and security best practices in the cloud
Desirable
- Experience in a hybrid environment bridging cloud and on-premise/data center infrastructure
- Experience managing infrastructure for data-intensive or ML/AI workloads
- Knowledge of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
- Contributions to open-source projects or a public portfolio of code (GitHub)
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll architecting our next-generation system from the ground up, running the Kubernetes infrastructure that powers some of the most advanced AI workloads in the industry, and bridging multi-cloud and on-prem environments in ways no generic SaaS company can offer
- Your work will directly impact the productivity of every engineer at SambaNova and by extension, the speed at which we ship the future of AI computing
- Architect, build, and maintain our next-generation internal developer platform, automating and streamlining our cloud and on-prem infrastructure
- Design, write, and manage Terraform modules to provision and manage resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure, ensuring consistency and reproducibility
- Build and manage highly available, secure, and performant Kubernetes clusters that serve as the primary runtime for our diverse AI workloads
- Design and implement robust networking solutions (VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, service meshes) that seamlessly connect our multi-cloud and hybrid environments
- Collaborate with AI and software engineering teams to understand their needs, provide golden paths to production, and build internal tools that accelerate their development cycles
- Implement best practices for observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) to ensure system reliability and performance, and participate in on-call rotation
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.
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Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2026
$1bn
SERIES F
Feb 2026
$350m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.5bn
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
Trimble Business Area, San Jose, 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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