Senior Principal Engineer - SambaRack

The role

You will design and build software to monitor, control, update, and diagnose SambaRack systems. This role focuses on rack-scale hardware management and infrastructure software that operates in contact with hardware.

What you will do

• Design and build core software components for safe, reliable control, monitoring, and diagnostics for rack-scale AI systems
• Lead the technical design and implementation of hardware-software integration points and infrastructure services
• Improve observability, telemetry, and diagnostics capabilities across the SambaRack platform
• Identify and resolve systemic risks including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints
• Collaborate with Hardware Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams
• Contribute to and help evolve architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends
• Design and build new systems and capabilities for the AI inference space

Required qualifications

• 8-12 years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience building infrastructure, systems, or platform software
• Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
• Experience designing reliable backend or control-plane services for production systems
• Experience with hardware management systems such as BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, or OpenBMC
• Experience with monitoring, telemetry, or observability systems for infrastructure platforms
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of software development best practices and coding standards

Nice to have

• Experience with rack management, server management, or bare-metal infrastructure platforms
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and metrics exporter design
• Familiarity with fleet management, diagnostics systems, and hardware health monitoring
• Experience supporting enterprise or air-gapped deployments
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience designing scalable infrastructure and distributed systems
• Familiarity with telemetry systems and infrastructure observability tooling

Benefits

• Base salary plus equity
• 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
• 77% premium coverage for dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care
• Headspace subscription
• Gympass+ membership
• One Medical membership
• Counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program

About the company

SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. The company develops advanced AI systems powered by RDU architecture.