Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer with a platform infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background to help build and operate the systems behind Tenstorrent’s AI cloud. This team develops and runs both on-prem and public cloud infrastructure and services that support high-performance AI workloads. The role spans backend development, service integrations, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and reliability engineering, with room to go deeper in a specialty while working across the stack.

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

 

Who You Are

• Strong software engineer with a track record of designing and delivering complex production services and applications.
• Fluent in Python, with Go and/or TypeScript as a plus.
• Experienced with Kubernetes and comfortable working across bare metal, virtual machines, and modern cloud infrastructure; AWS experience is a plus.
• Familiar with observability and production operations across hardware, system, and application layers, including monitoring, alerting, and telemetry.
• Bonus points for depth in network automation, storage platforms, and/or cloud or application security.

 

What We Need

• Build and improve backend services and platform integrations that power Tenstorrent’s on-prem and public AI cloud environments.
• Raise the bar on infrastructure automation through CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Strengthen platform reliability with better observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational response across the stack.
• Partner effectively with end-users, peers, and domain experts to turn complex infrastructure needs into dependable systems.
• Bring technical leadership, strong engineering judgment, and a mindset of continuous learning that helps the team scale its capabilities.

 

What You Will Learn

• How AI cloud infrastructure comes together end-to-end, from data center hardware and fleet operations to user-facing services and interfaces.
• What it takes to run reliable, high-performance AI workloads across both on-prem and public cloud environments.
• How hardware, software, networking, storage, and operations intersect inside a real-world AI platform.
• How to expand into adjacent parts of the stack without getting boxed into a narrow silo.
• How to apply the latest AI tools in day-to-day engineering work while building practical systems that matter.

 

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.