Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cake is on a mission to make cutting-edge AI accessible to enterprise teams. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical leadership role in building and operating the infrastructure that powers Cake’s AI platform, focusing on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Leverage infrastructure-as-code to manage complex cloud environments supporting critical ML and AI initiatives
- Design Kubernetes-native systems, including controllers/operators where appropriate
- Improve platform networking, security, and observability
- Own critical systems in production, including reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
- Identify and proactively address technical debt, operational risk, and platform bottlenecks
- Quickly ramp up to a complex tech stack (Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Crossplane, Go, TypeScript)
- Create abstractions and tooling that make it easier for teams and customers to deploy, run, and scale AI/ML workloads
- Collaborate directly with customers to understand their ML infrastructure challenges and translate them into platform improvements
- Balance speed and rigor—shipping quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and safety
- Act as a technical leader and mentor across the engineering organization
- Write clear documentation and design proposals that align stakeholders and drive decisions
- Partner closely with product and leadership to shape platform direction and priorities
Skills
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with significant time spent on infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
- Proven track record of building and operating secure, scalable AI/MLOps platforms
- Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, CDK)
- Strong programming skills in at least one backend language (Go preferred; TypeScript also welcome)
- Experience diagnosing and debugging complex production issues
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD, test-driven development, and DevSecOps practices
- Comfortable owning large, ambiguous problems from inception to production
- Excellent communicator, able to clearly explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working directly with customers and incorporating feedback into technical decisions
- Ability to operate autonomously while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned
- Customer-first and product-oriented
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to learn new systems and domains
- Collaborative, respectful, and willing to lean into hard conversations
- Energized by fast-paced environments and meaningful responsibility
- Bonus: experience building Kubernetes operators and/or working with service meshes (e.g., Istio)
Benefits
- Top-tier fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k program
- Unlimited PTO
- Monthly half day
- Citi Bike membership
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Office equipment stipend, including reimbursement for approved disability-related accommodations
- Investment in employee learning and growth opportunities
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