Senior System Administrator
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
Infrastructureonsitesenior$160k–$190k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own the Linux fleet powering global AI compute clusters end to end.
- Deploy and operate heterogeneous fleet from x86 to AI accelerators.
- Drive automation to keep fleet healthy as hardware mix evolves.
What they offer
- Equity
- 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, 77% for dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Headspace subscription, Gympass+ membership and One Medical membership
- Employee Assistance Program counseling services
Ideal candidate
A seasoned Linux operator who thrives at scale in fast-paced environments and loves automating away drift. You take end-to-end ownership of fleet health across data centers and enjoy supporting diverse users.
Requirements
- 5+ years performing system administration duties at scale
- Deep working knowledge of Red Hat based distributions
- Hands-on experience with core infrastructure services, including PXE, kickstart, DNS, DHCP, NTP, NFS, and LDAP
- System provisioning
- Ansible and other automation tooling
- Revision control systems
- System, application, and network debugging
- Experience in a high performance computing environment
- Experience with job schedulers
- Telemetry and monitoring
- End user support
- Basic networking knowledge
- Basic programming and scripting skills
- Documentation of systems, procedures, and runbooks
- Thrives in a fast paced environment
- remote policy
- Remote considered for an exceptional candidate, subject to time zone review
Lab profile
About SambaNova
Full-stack AI infrastructure with RDU dataflow chips for fast agentic inference.
What they build
- RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- SambaRack rack-scale hardware
- Full-stack AI inference platform
Known for
- Reconfigurable dataflow architecture alternative to GPUs
- High decode performance for agentic workloads
- Full-stack hardware-software co-design
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Palo Alto, California
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