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Platform Software Engineer – AI/ML & GPU Infrastructure

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San Jose, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$155k - $223k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop control-plane services, APIs, and Kubernetes controllers for multi-cluster lifecycle management, tenant onboarding, and GPU quota enforcement.
  • Implement GPU capacity scheduling and allocation, including fractional GPUs, multi-tenant isolation, workload-aware scheduling, and multi-node placement.
  • Build capacity-intake, demand-classification, request-routing, and automated remediation tooling for GPU infrastructure.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable Kubernetes or OpenShift platforms for AI compute workloads.
  • Develop platform services, automation, internal tools, dashboards, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and CI/CD systems.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and support reliability, incident response, and performance optimization for production infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building, operating, or extending Kubernetes-based platforms or distributed systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Go or Python and hands-on experience with control-plane services, custom APIs, Kubernetes Controllers, Operators, or CRDs.
  • Hands-on experience with batch or accelerator schedulers such as Kueue, Volcano, Slurm, or custom scheduler plugins for GPU or AI/ML workloads.
  • Practical experience with GPU scheduling, multi-tenant GPU infrastructure, or accelerated compute platforms.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD deployment pipelines, and cloud-native observability tools such as Terraform, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Preferred experience includes multi-cluster control planes, tenant isolation, NVIDIA or AMD GPU architectures, topology-aware placement, NCCL, gang scheduling, AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, developer tools, Kubernetes internals, and production incident response.

Benefits

  • U.S. employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
  • Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses under Cisco policies.
  • Paid time off includes holidays, personal wellness days, sick time, vacation or flexible vacation depending on employee classification, and optional paid volunteer days.
  • The role is listed for U.S. and/or Canada locations, with location-specific salary ranges and benefits subject to eligibility and local policies.

Tech Stack

GoGrafanaKubernetesOpenShiftPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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