Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer
Role Overview
Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure.
You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team.
Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components.
Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Graphcore
Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.
It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.
As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.
Job Summary
Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems.
The Team
The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible.
Responsibilities and Duties
Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support the software build and release process
Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
Support the technical development of junior and graduate engineer
Embody a strong engineering discipline for high reliability and minimal toil
Candidate Profile
Essential:
Knowledge of Python/Go/C++ (or similar language)
Experience deploying services in the cloud (AWS preferred)
Deep understanding of Linux environments
Native user of CI/CD for production deployments
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
Desirable
Experience using Kubernetes (k8s) or OpenStack
Experience with GitHub Actions
Experience with build tools (e.g. CMake)
Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)
Experience with Grafana
Benefits
- In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
- Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications
About Graphcore
Semiconductor company that developed the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor purpose-built to accelerate machine learning and AI workloads.
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