What's the salary range?

Together AI lists $160,000–$230,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure role.

Where is the role based?

Together AI is hiring for this position in San Francisco.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: DPUs/SmartNICs, Terraform, VPC, AWS, Grafana, QEMU/KVM.

What seniority level is this role?

Together AI targets senior candidates for this position.

Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure at Together AI

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and maintaining a robust AI cloud infrastructure that supports high-performance computing and machine learning services. Key skills include proficiency in backend programming, particularly in Golang, and experience with distributed micro-service architectures across major cloud platforms. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong technical background and a collaborative mindset, particularly those familiar with Kubernetes and virtualization technologies. Together AI emphasizes innovation and open-source contributions, making it a dynamic environment for technical growth.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Together AI's career page.
Together AI has 58 other open roles including Customer Support Engineer (Inference), Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research, Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering.
1250 active AWS roles on Joblaze right now.
1056 active Kubernetes roles on Joblaze right now.
772 active GCP roles on Joblaze right now.
Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML (median ~$190,000).

Quick facts

Is the Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure role remote?: It's hybrid — Together AI expects some on-site time in San Francisco.
What's the salary range?: Together AI lists $160,000–$230,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure role.
Where is the role based?: Together AI is hiring for this position in San Francisco.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: DPUs/SmartNICs, Terraform, VPC, AWS, Grafana, QEMU/KVM.
What seniority level is this role?: Together AI targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure role at Together AI.

From the original posting

About the Role

Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud platform – a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware (GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand + managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters. This platform serves both our internal SaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across the world.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain performant, secure, and highly-available backend services/operators that run in our data centers and automate hardware management, such as Infiniband partitioning, in-DC parallel storage provisioning, and VM provisioning.
Design and build out the IaaS software layer for a new GB200 data center with thousands of GPUs.
Work on a global multi-exabyte high-performance object store, serving massive datasets for pretraining.
Build advanced observability stacks for our customers with automated node lifecycle management for fault-tolerant distributed pretraining.
Perform architecture and research work for decentralized AI workloads
Work on the core, open-source Together AI platform
Create services, tools, and developer documentation
Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance

To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have strong fundamental software development skills. In addition, you have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience and proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Golang desired)
5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed micro-service architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members
Deep experience with Kubernetes internals a big plus, such as implementing non-trivial Kubernetes operators, device/storage/network plugins, custom schedulers, or patches thereon or Kubernetes itself
Deep experience with VMs/hypervisors a big plus, such as QEMU/KVM, cloud-hypervisor, VFIO, virtio, PCIE passthrough, Kubevirt, SR-IOV
Deep experience with DC networking tech + solutions a big plus, such as VLAN, VXLAN, VPN, VPC, OVS/OVN
Experience with Cluster API or similar a big plus
Experience working on high-performance compute, networking, and/or storage a big plus
Experience virtualizing GPUs and/or Infiniband a big plus
Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
Experience building IaaS or PaaS systems at scale a plus
Experience with DPUs/SmartNICs a plus
GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA knowledge a plus

About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $160,000 - $230,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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