Software Architect - SambaStack
SambaNova· Software
BengaluruINR 10300k - INR 12500kfull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Software Architect on the SambaStack team responsible for defining the platform’s technical direction, owning cross-cutting architectural decisions, and guiding the evolution to meet enterprise AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the SambaStack inference platform, ensuring it meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Define and drive architectural strategy across engineering teams, aligning long-term platform direction with product and business objectives
- Lead design reviews for major new capabilities and cross-cutting system changes, providing authoritative technical guidance and raising the quality bar across the SambaStack engineering organization
- Proactively identify and resolve systemic risks, including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints, before they impact customers
- Establish and evolve architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across the SambaStack engineering organization
- Partner with ML Engineers, Product Managers, QA, and DevOps to translate complex, ambiguous requirements into sound architectural decisions
- Serve as a technical thought leader and mentor, growing the architectural thinking and design skills of software engineers across the team
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform the platform's technical roadmap
- Architect new systems, components, and capabilities to solve new and interesting problems in the AI inference space
Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a role with organization-wide technical influence
- Proven track record of owning large-scale distributed systems architectures end-to-end from design to production
- Expertise building backend systems in Python, Go, or Rust
- Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm Charts, and cluster-scale resource management
- Strong command of distributed systems principles: consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and performance at scale
- Demonstrated experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving cross-functional alignment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Able to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions to both engineering and non-technical audiences
- Track record of mentoring more junior engineers and elevating team-wide engineering quality
Skills
Required:Technical architecture and cross-functional leadershipBackend developmentKubernetes and distributed systems
Benefits
- Base salary and equity
- Health insurance premium coverage (employee and dependents)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Well-being benefits including Headspace, Gympass+ membership, One Medical membership, and EAP services
Last updated Sep 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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