Software Engineer Cloud at The San Francisco Compute Company

Were building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.When people finance GPU clusters the datacenters housing them and the infrastructure powering them they need offtake - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders dont want to take on the risk that cluster developers cant repay their loan and cluster developers really dont want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.If you dont mitigate this customer risk theres a bubble. This isnt SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase its game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the marketOtherwise as AI scales compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian cant realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.So thats what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.About the RoleWere looking for a high agency engineer to help build the compute delivery platform that powers our offtake this role you will develop novel systems that integrate our compute market with the orchestration software managing virtual machines running on cutting-edge HPC hardware.This role may be a good fit for you ifYoure an engineer who cuts through ambiguity to ship fast.Youre experienced in a systems programing language (C C Rust)You understand command and control patterns (control loops reconciliation state management.)Youve designed data models in SQL and implemented the corresponding APIs (gRPC REST) that expose them.Youre comfortable translating product ideas into design proposals and iterating on feedback.Bonus points ifYou have experience with RustYouve previously worked at or founded a startupYou have experience working on large-scale distributed scheduling problemsThings you might work on ..Develop user facing APIs that integrate control plane primitives with our compute market.Designing scheduling algorithms that translate marketplace contracts into hardware allocations.Extending the interface between the orchestration service and hypervisor to support new virtual machine provisioning capabilities and lifecycle operations.BenefitsGenerous equity grantTeam members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the companyVisa SponsorshipsYes we sponsor visas and work permitsRetirement matchingWe match 401(k) plans up to 4%Medical dental & visionWe offer competitive medical dental vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiumsTime offWe offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10 observed holidaysParental leaveWe offer biological adoptive and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with familyDaily lunchWe cover lunch daily for employeesUnlimited office book budgetYou can buy as many books for the office as you wantThe San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.We make employment decisions based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion belief national origin social or ethical origin age physical mental or sensory disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service HIV status family medical history or genetic information family or parental status including pregnancy or any other status protected by law.We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history in accordance with local state and federal laws including San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance and Californias ban-the-box laws.If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason please reach out to us at . Key Skills Spring,.NET,C/C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems Employment Type : Full-Time Department / Functional Area: Engineering Experience: years Vacancy: 1 Monthly Salary Salary: 150 - 250