Cloud Platform Engineer - New Grad
SambaNova Systems
$131,200 - $196,800 / year
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Description
SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.
About the Team
The Cloud Platform team runs the production inference service that serves SambaNova's models to customers on RDU accelerators. We handle deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, and incident response across regions in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
About the Role
As a new grad Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll write automation and infrastructure code that keeps our inference service fast and available. You'll build monitoring and dashboards, manage Kubernetes clusters and Terraform modules, help stand up new regions, and join a shared on-call rotation once you're ramped up.
Responsibilities
- Build monitoring, alerting, and dashboards in Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
- Manage cloud and on-prem infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible
- Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters that run our inference workloads
- Help automate setup of AI infrastructure in new regions
- Build CI/CD pipelines that deploy new model versions and service updates safely
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation and incident response
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or a similar language
- Familiarity with Linux and command line tools
- Coursework or project experience in distributed systems, networking, or cloud computing
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Familiarity with model serving frameworks such as vLLM or SGLang
- Internship experience in site reliability, DevOps, or backend infrastructure
- Open source project ownership or contributions
Base Salary Range:
Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
EEO Policy
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
Benefits
- health insurance
- stock options
About this role
SambaNova's Cloud Platform team operates the production inference service that delivers AI models to customers across multiple continents, and this new grad role puts you directly into that infrastructure work. You'll write automation and code that keeps the system fast and available—building monitoring dashboards in Prometheus and Grafana, managing Kubernetes clusters and Terraform modules, standing up infrastructure in new regions, and eventually joining the on-call rotation for incident response. The work spans the full stack: cloud and on-premises infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipeline development, and the operational side of keeping a distributed system running.
You'll need a CS or related degree, solid programming skills in Python or Go, and hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one public cloud platform. Coursework or project experience in distributed systems, networking, or cloud computing is expected. Familiarity with Terraform, Prometheus or Grafana, and CI/CD tools rounds out the core requirements. If you've interned in DevOps or site reliability work, contributed to open source, or used model serving frameworks like vLLM, that strengthens your candidacy.
This is an in-office role in Austin. The position offers the full benefits package SambaNova provides to US-based employees, including strong medical coverage, dental and vision, and wellness benefits like Headspace and One Medical.
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