Software Engineer III, Infrastructure
Kirkland, WA$147k - $210kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Software engineer focused on optimizing Lustre on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to enable AI/ML workloads, with responsibilities spanning performance measurement, customer deployments, debugging, and developing Lustre features integrated with GCP technologies.
Responsibilities
- Write product or system development code.
- Measure Lustre performance measurements, investigating bottlenecks, and performance improvements, collaborate with teams across GCP to unlock all of Lustre's potential.
- Work with customers on their Lustre deployment to diagnose problems and optimize performance, and help customers profile their workload, and tune it for GCP.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
- Develop Lustre features that integrate with GCP technologies, enabling customers to bring their AI/ML workloads to GCP, collaborate with partner teams like GKE, GCS, Vertex AI, GCE, etc. to optimize the GCP stack end-to-end.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- 2 years of experience with open source or developer technologies.
- 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- Experience with performance analysis and computer architecture.
Skills
Required:Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experienceLarge-scale infrastructure / distributed systems experienceOpen source or developer technologiesSoftware developmentPerformance analysis and computer architecture
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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