Principal Cloud Backend Engineer

SambaNova Systems

3 months ago

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

Lead the technical vision and architecture for the inference serving and monetization platform.
Design systems that are fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable for accurate usage tracking.
Architect core systems for flexible monetization, including entitlements and quota management.
Build reliable systems for usage metering and prepare data for billing.
Design APIs for seamless integration with external billing and payment providers.
Implement complex distributed systems for real-time rate limiting and quota enforcement.
Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to ensure low-latency request handling.
Establish best practices in code quality, testing, and observability.
Collaborate with Product Management, Finance, and GTM teams to develop scalable technical solutions.

10+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed backend systems.
5+ years in a Principal or Lead Engineer role with a track record of architecting business-critical platforms.
Expert proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++ with a deep understanding of concurrency and performance optimization.
Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies and major cloud providers.
Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and designing data models for high-throughput applications.
Strong foundation in API design and building resilient microservices.
Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive technical consensus.

95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance and 77% for dependents.
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, and Voluntary Life insurance plans.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for health care and dependent care.
Well-being benefits including a subscription to Headspace and Gympass+ membership.

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