Software Development Engineer III — Neuron Containers, Neuron Containers, Annapurna Labs

Lead multi-person projects end-to-end — from design documentation and architecture reviews through to delivery
Design container platform integrations — device plugins, DRA drivers, and operator development for ML accelerator resource management
Solve scalability challenges — diagnose performance issues across thousand-node customer clusters
Simplify systems — deprecate legacy software and reduce complexity in container delivery pipelines
Drive operational excellence — own on-call responsibilities, proactively triage test failures, and drive ticket resolution
Elevate team quality — deliver insightful code reviews and set the standard through your own contributions
Build consensus — align stakeholders on technical direction when solutions are ambiguous or views are discordant

About the team
Neuron Containers connects the Neuron SDK to compute platforms. The team enables customers to run training and inference workloads on Neuron at scale — with reliable device allocation, fault tolerance, auto-scaling, and native observability. The team owns Neuron integration with Kubernetes, ECS, and Slurm.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 7+ years of software development experience
- 4+ years of distributed systems experience, or Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- Experience in large-scale IT deployment or programming
- Experience leading engineering design projects and interacting with cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in Go or similar systems languages

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with Kubernetes architecture device plugins, schedulers, controllers, DRA drivers
- Hands-on experience with Helm, Prometheus, Kubernetes operator frameworks
- Familiarity with ML training/inference infrastructure and container image pipelines
- Experience with AWS compute services (EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR)
- Exposure to Deep Learning Containers or Deep Learning AMIs

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