Staff Software Engineer (MetalDev)

Join our Compute Architecture organization as a Staff Software Engineer. You will be responsible for building and operating Go-based services that manage the lifecycle of large-scale GPU data center infrastructure. Your work will directly improve the reliability, safety, and scalability of real-world infrastructure. You will also provide technical leadership, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and partner with various teams to design systems that work safely at fleet scale.

• Design, build, and operate Go-based services that manage the lifecycle of large-scale GPU data center infrastructure.
• Build automation for data center bring-up, hardware discovery, health monitoring, remediation, and production operations.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.

• Skilled in applying a data-driven approach to reliability, optimization, and continuous improvement
• B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on infrastructure, cloud engineering, and distributed databases—particularly within large-scale datacenter and cloud environments
• Expertise in Go and proven experience building REST/gRPC APIs for mission-critical platforms
• Excellent communicator able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Track record of leading incident response, postmortems, and driving robust service reliability
• Proven success in mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and influencing engineering strategy across teams
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL), CI/CD pipelines, and operating large fleets of GPU servers
• Strong background in architecting and scaling cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure and distributed services
• Experience contributing to and collaborating with open source communities
• Working knowledge of Kafka, ClickHouse and CRDB
• DMTF, RedFish APIs, and GPU servers