# Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Thunder Compute

- Company: Thunder Compute
- What the company does: Thunder Compute makes GPUs abundant with GPU virtualization research, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise partnerships that unlock more data center capacity. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.thundercompute.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thundercompute/927a922b-c607-4b0e-a6f2-451571a537f4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thunder-compute-software-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

Your work will focus on building the cloud infrastructure surrounding our GPU virtualization layer. This includes the Go backbone of our cloud platform, Kubernetes-based orchestration, production reliability, networking, storage, billing infrastructure, and the systems used to deploy and operate GPU capacity at scale. You will take ownership of complex infrastructure from early design through production deployment. Example projects may include:

## What they're looking for

- Exceptional Go ability, including concurrency, distributed systems design, API design, and production service development
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, storage, or cloud infrastructure
- Experience building and operating critical production systems
- Strong systems debugging and operational ability
- Ability to reason through unfamiliar systems across multiple layers of the stack
- Working knowledge of Python, familiarity with TypeScript or Next.js is helpful

Tags: Engineering