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Senior Principal Engineer - SambaRack

SambaNova Systems
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Software
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 8-12 years of software engineering experience
  • Strong experience building infrastructure, systems, or platform software
  • Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
  • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
  • Experience designing reliable backend or control-plane services for production systems
  • Experience with hardware management systems such as BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, or OpenBMC
Nice to have
  • Experience with rack management, server management, or bare-metal infrastructure platforms
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and metrics exporter design
  • Familiarity with fleet management, diagnostics systems, and hardware health monitoring
  • Experience supporting enterprise or air-gapped deployments
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem
What the job really is

As a Senior Principal Engineer for the SambaRack platform, you will design and build software that enables customers to monitor, control, update, and diagnose rack-scale AI systems. This hands-on role requires expertise in systems and infrastructure, focusing on hardware management and infrastructure software that interacts directly with hardware in diverse environments. You will also lead technical initiatives, improve system performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the platform's capabilities.

Things to weigh
  • No specific benefits listed for this role in India, only for US-based positions
  • The role requires significant technical expertise and is high-impact, which may lead to high expectations
  • The position involves working with hardware and may require dealing with complex integration challenges
Job score2.6/5
Benefits1/5
Freshness4/5
Career value4/5
Role clarity4/5
Pay transparency0/5

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