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Software Engineer, Compute Infra
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 2+ years of professional experience building software may substitute for a degree; no separate experience requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline, or equivalent experience as described (2+ years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree).
About the job
Build and operate sandbox infrastructure that gives AI agents isolated virtual machines across large-scale datacenters.
What you'll do
- Rearchitect the control plane and scheduler to support 1 million concurrent VMs per cluster.
- Build a ublk block device for deduplication, lazy loading, and efficient VM snapshots.
- Design secure agent networking and resilient infrastructure across cloud and on-premise datacenters.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree.
Nice to have
- Deep experience building compute orchestration, such as Kubernetes or Mesos.
- Experience operating large VM or sandbox fleets, and with the Linux kernel and virtualization technologies.
Tools
Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, Kubernetes, Mesos, Linux kernel, ublk
AI focus
Build sandbox VMs and infrastructure used by coding agents, Grok Bot, reinforcement learning, and future agents.
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