Software Engineer; Compute

Position: Staff Software Engineer (Compute)
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* Job Description:

** Data Robot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI aRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on Data Robot for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future.

Our AI Compute team is the engine at the heart of Data Robot. We have a mission to build and operate the foundational computing backbone that powers all of Data Robot's AI products and our customers' most demanding workloads. This team works backwards from the needs of data scientists, ML engineers, and application developers to provide the raw power and sophisticated orchestration required to train, deploy, and manage agentic AI at any scale.

We are the internal equivalent of a hyperscale cloud provider's core compute service, obsessed with performance, efficiency, and enabling the future of AI.As a Staff Software Engineer in our AI Compute team, you’ll be a technical expert and a force multiplier. You’ll lead by example—rolling up your sleeves as a technical contributor to solve complex problems, shaping architecture, and mentoring engineers to do their best work and advance their careers.

You’ll work across our control plane systems, influence cross-team roadmaps, and bring pragmatic engineering practices into how we build, test, and operate infrastructure software.

This role includes participation in an on-call rotation—we believe in shared ownership of our platform and aim to build systems that are resilient, observable, and require minimal intervention.
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* Key Responsibilities:

***** Build a system that ensures micro-services are secure, performant, reliable, and can go from idea to production in an hour.
* Build a system that continuously provides recommendations to right-size computing resources for Kubernetes to ensure efficient cloud spending for ourselves and our customers.
* Design and architect automated quality platforms to go from Enterprise-Grade releases from once-a-quarter to once-a-week to once-per-day to once-per-hour without sacrificing performance, security, or reliability
* Work with Product, Legal and Security to ensure the continuous delivery processes you build are compliant and secure
* Work with the team to ensure pipelines have clear playbooks and can operate 24/7 without you
* Work with a diverse group of architects and platform engineers across our R&D department to set continuous delivery and performance requirements for all production services
* Work with internal product managers to set roadmaps and define milestones to deliver innovative and simple solutions to our many teams’ continuous delivery and platform engineering issues
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Skills and Abilities

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*** Expert proficiency in Kubernetes architecture and operations including resource management/scheduling, auto-scaling, Gateway API/Ingress, Prometheus, and Open Telemetry or experience with other orchestrators like nomad/slurm
* Experience with gpu clusters, either as a user or administrator or experience in multi-node AI/ML
* Passionate about developing products for your fellow internal developers.
* Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, and driving consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders
* Able to influence others in the organization even where they lack explicit authority
* Proven track record for leading large-scale projects to completion across dozens of teams/Pods
* Experience mentoring senior engineers, fostering a positive team culture, and promoting continuous learning and improvement among colleagues
* Operational excellency to continuously define and improve SLA (Service Level Agreement) working backward from customer experience for all the software components this team manages.
**** Requisite

Education and Experience /

Minimum Qualifications:

***** 10+ years of experience
* Expert in developing a wide variety of software with Python (5+ years)
* Experience designing and operating diverse CI/CD pipelines with (8+ years)
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