Principal Software Engineer Networking
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 175 - 300
Posted on:
14-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
About
Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one.
Startups shouldnt be forced to buy a years worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldnt go bankrupt because they cant 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 its 32 H100s for a month or 8000 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. WhatBrentis for oil we will be for compute.
About the Role
As a Principal Software Engineer - Networking youll be responsible for designing and operating the infrastructure that powers our global footprint of GPU clusters. Your scope will include system software orchestration and distributed automation. This is a software engineering role with an emphasis on the ability to design systems that dynamically integrate networking and compute at scale.
Key Areas of Impact
Design and operate orchestration frameworks to manage tens of thousands of GPUs across Kubernetes virtualization and bare metal
Develop automation frameworks for large-scale provisioning monitoring and fault tolerance
Build distributed systems that can withstand node or cluster-wide failures
Architect software-defined networking solutions that integrate with underlay switches and support scalable designs
Collaborate with networking specialists to ensure fabric resilience low latency and scalability leveraging routing protocols like BGP where needed
Integrate high-performance distributed storage with compute and networking layers
About You
Strong software engineering background with experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems
Comfortable with Linux internals debugging and performance optimization
Exposure to GPU/HPC clusters
Networking literacy: familiar with eBGP VXLAN RoCEv2 and InfiniBand plus an understanding of how to design software systems that dynamically leverage these fabrics
Strong automation scripting and documentation skills
Nice to Haves
Go or Rust experience (3 years)
Deep knowledge of HPC fabrics (InfiniBand Ultra Ethernet RoCEv2)
Experience with high-performance storage (WEKA VAST Ceph etc.)
Prior exposure to global distributed compute operations
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 want
The 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 Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance and Californias ban-the-box laws.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
