# Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Exa](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/exa)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $350k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Rust, AWS, Ray, GPU, Observability, Mapreduce
**Posted:** 2025-09-03

> Builds and operates large-scale infrastructure including GPU clusters, Kubernetes orchestration, AWS batch jobs, and observability tooling to power AI search systems. Requires experience with massive-scale systems and focus on reliability and optimization.

## Job Description

## Desired Experience
- Experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure - GPU clusters or large Kubernetes clusters or cloud batchjob systems
- Obsessive mindset — always thinking about reliability, observability, and optimization across the entire stack

## Example Projects
- Build the Kubernetes orchestration on a $20m GPU cluster
- Scale our AWS batchjob system to handle map reduce jobs over 10s of thousands of machines
- Design GPU scheduling software so we max out our cluster utilization
- Build observability into our production systems

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