Principal Member of Technical Staff, Core Infrastructure
Edison Scientific2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters supporting thousands of concurrent persistent resources.
- Design and develop custom resource definitions and Kubernetes operators for AI agent lifecycles, research pipelines, and long-running compute tasks.
- Define cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling, resource quota, scheduling, placement, and affinity strategies.
- Build and maintain reproducible infrastructure-as-code environments using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools.
- Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for infrastructure systems.
- Own Kubernetes storage and networking strategy, including persistent volumes, CSI drivers, service mesh, network policies, and ingress.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed infrastructure issues and guide others through debugging and remediation.
- Collaborate with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload requirements into reliable infrastructure patterns.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience with deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise in production.
- Experience designing and implementing CRDs and Kubernetes operators using tools such as Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, or controller-runtime.
- Experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters with thousands of persistent or long-lived resources.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, and kubelet.
- Expertise with AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS and related networking, storage, and IAM primitives.
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend programming language for operator development and infrastructure tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane and GitOps workflows.
- Strong knowledge of container networking, CNI plugins, service mesh, network policies, CSI, persistent volumes, StatefulSets, RBAC, Pod Security Standards, and secrets management.
- Ability to work autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production.
- Preferred experience with data-intensive platforms, scientific computing, ML/AI infrastructure, startups, significant architectural ownership, or scaling systems, teams, or platforms through rapid growth.
Benefits
- Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
- Yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot.
- Mental health support through Rula.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch during office days and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time, on-site work at the San Francisco Dogpatch office.
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About Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific builds AI scientist agents and an R&D platform (Kosmos) for pharma, biotech, and materials teams, integrating with organizations’ proprietary data to guide experiments and analysis from discovery through development. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held, it was spun out of the nonprofit research lab FutureHouse in 2025, and offers enterprise deployments—including bring-your-own-cloud installations—to meet compliance requirements at large research organizations.