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Systems Software Engineer

The San Francisco Compute CompanySan Francisco, California, United StatesOnsite

About


Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one.Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters.At SF Compute, our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders.If we succeed, buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread.

Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What Brent is for oil, we will be for compute.

About the Role


As a systems software engineer, you’ll be working on software to manage, run, and deliver GPU compute at scale. Areas of involvement include virtual machine and Kubernetes orchestration, UEFI boot management, fault-tolerant spine-leaf topology networks, and distributed storage systems.

About You


  • You have built fault tolerant distributed systems before that can manage hardware resources at scale
  • You're familiar with PCI pass-through on virtual machines
  • You're familiar with Linux kernel internals and have experience writing kernel drivers
  • You appreciate and value good documentation

Some Nice to Haves


  • Experience with Go or Rust (3+ years)
  • Experience with GPU clusters (NVIDIA A100 or newer) and or embedded systems
  • Experience with high performance storage systems (WEKA, VAST, Ceph, etc.)

Benefits


Generous equity grant


Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships


Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement matching


We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision


We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off


We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental leave


We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch


We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget


You can buy as many books for the office as you wantThe San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records.

Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason, please reach out to us at team@sfcompute.com.Compensation Range: $170K - $300K

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