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Compute Platform Engineer

Codegen

Codegen

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jul 30, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Seeking a Senior/Staff Compute Platform Engineer with experience managing container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc). Ideal candidates have 10+ years of software experience with significant experience managing container clusters.

About the Role

Codegen is hiring a full-time Senior/Staff Compute Platform Engineer to build our next generation compute infra. The role involves iterating on features, prototyping solutions, and refining them to enterprise standards.

The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated, high-agency individual capable of working independently and collaboratively to drive initiatives to completion. This is a senior-level position suited for professionals who have thrived in fast-growing companies and are excited to build an elite engineering culture.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience managing Container Orchestration clusters.

  • A minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience.

  • Demonstrated maturity in judgement and the capability to architect large systems independently.

  • A strong background in backend development, particularly with complex, stateful systems, and profound Python and/or data processing experience.

  • Proven track record as a prolific developer who collaborates effectively with teams and can assume the role of a tech lead on projects.

  • Self-guided with a knack for identifying and solving problems without needing supervision.

  • Previous AI experience is advantageous but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain our next generation containerized compute platform

  • Iterate quickly with the rest of the team, prioritizing customer outcomes over perfect implementations

  • Prototyping new solutions, bringing them to a functional state, and then refining them to be robust and ready for enterprise deployment.