Principal Engineer - SambaRack

The role

You will build software to monitor, control, update, and diagnose SambaRack systems. This hands-on role focuses on rack-scale hardware management and infrastructure software for diverse production environments.

What you will do

• Design and build software components for safe, reliable control, monitoring, and diagnostics for rack-scale AI systems
• Contribute to the technical design and implementation of hardware-software integration points and infrastructure services
• Build and improve observability, telemetry, and diagnostics capabilities for the SambaRack platform
• Identify and help resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints
• Collaborate with Hardware Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams
• Apply and help refine architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
• Partner with senior engineers and architects on technical designs
• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry trends
• Build new systems, components, and capabilities to solve problems in the AI inference space

Required qualifications

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience
• Experience building infrastructure, systems, or platform software
• Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
• Good understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
• Experience building 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
• Understanding of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience contributing to scalable infrastructure and distributed systems designs
• 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

Before you apply

• You must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified

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, combining hardware and software into an integrated platform.