Cloud Platform Architect

The role

You will architect and maintain a next-generation internal developer platform. This involves running Kubernetes infrastructure and managing multi-cloud and on-prem environments to support AI workloads.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and maintain the next-generation internal developer platform
• Design, write, and manage Terraform modules across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Build and manage highly available, secure, and performant Kubernetes clusters
• Design and implement networking solutions for multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Collaborate with AI and software engineering teams to provide golden paths to production
• Build internal tools to accelerate development cycles
• Implement observability best practices for monitoring, logging, and tracing
• Participate in on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• 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
• 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)
• Solid understanding of core cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing)
• Security best practices in the cloud

Nice to have

• 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)

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. Its technology is centered on the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit).