Software Engineer Cloud Job at The San Francisco Compute Company, San Francisco, CA

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  • The San Francisco Compute Company
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Were building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.

When people finance GPU clusters the datacenters housing them and the infrastructure powering them they need offtake - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.

Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders dont want to take on the risk that cluster developers cant repay their loan and cluster developers really dont want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.

If you dont mitigate this customer risk theres a bubble. This isnt SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase its game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market

Otherwise as AI scales compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian cant realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.

So thats what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

About the Role

Were looking for a high agency engineer to help build the compute delivery platform that powers our offtake this role you will develop novel systems that integrate our compute market with the orchestration software managing virtual machines running on cutting-edge HPC hardware worth billions of dollars.

This role may be a good fit for you if

  • Youre an engineer who cuts through ambiguity to ship fast.

  • Youre experienced in a systems programing language (C C Rust)

  • You understand command and control patterns (control loops reconciliation state management.)

  • Youve designed data models in SQL and implemented the corresponding APIs (gRPC REST) that expose them.

  • Youre comfortable translating product ideas into design proposals and iterating on feedback.

Bonus points if

  • You have experience with Rust

  • Youve previously worked at or founded a startup

  • You have experience working on large-scale distributed scheduling problems

Things you might work on ..

  • Develop user facing APIs that integrate control plane primitives with our compute market.

  • Designing scheduling algorithms that translate marketplace contracts into hardware allocations.

  • Extending the interface between the orchestration service and hypervisor to support new virtual machine provisioning capabilities and lifecycle 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.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason please reach out to us at .

Job Tags

Long term contract, Full time, Fixed term contract, Work at office, Local area, Visa sponsorship, Shift work,

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