Software Architect - SambaStack
SambaNova SystemsResponsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the SambaStack inference platform for scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Define and drive architectural strategy across engineering teams in alignment with product and business objectives.
- Lead design reviews for major capabilities and cross-cutting system changes while providing authoritative technical guidance.
- Identify and resolve systemic risks such as performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints.
- Establish architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across the engineering organization.
- Partner with ML Engineers, Product Managers, QA, and DevOps to translate complex requirements into architectural decisions.
- Mentor Software Engineers and improve organization-wide architectural thinking and engineering quality.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends and architect new systems for AI inference workloads.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience with organization-wide technical influence.
- Proven ownership of large-scale distributed systems architectures from design through production.
- Expertise building backend systems in Python, Go, or Rust.
- Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm Charts, and cluster-scale resource management.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems principles including consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and performance at scale.
- Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving cross-functional alignment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track record of mentoring junior engineers and elevating team-wide engineering quality.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI inference serving, orchestration, production-scale LLM infrastructure, custom hardware accelerators such as dataflow architectures, GPUs, or TPUs, ML application optimization, enterprise cloud-native platforms, stringent SLA and compliance requirements, AI coding assistants, and high-growth AI infrastructure companies.
Benefits
- Base salary range of ₹10,300,000–₹12,500,000 INR.
- US-based full-time benefits include employer coverage of 95% of employee medical insurance premiums and 77% of dependent premiums, plus an employer-contributed Health Savings Account.
- Dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, basic and voluntary life, AD&D, and flexible spending account options are available.
- Well-being benefits include Headspace, Gympass+ with access to physical gyms, One Medical, counseling, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- The total rewards package includes equity and benefits in addition to base salary.
About SambaNova Systems
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing. Our Mission To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow. Our Technology We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise. Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier. SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations. SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days. At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.