Sr. Cloud Software Engineer
Super Micro Computer
San Jose, CA · Posted October 12, 2026
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About the job
Job Req ID: 30419
About Supermicro:
Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.
Job Summary:
Ready to Technically Lead the automation engine behind next-generation AI infrastructure? We’re hiring a Staff Engineer to lead the design and delivery of SuperCloud Automation Center (SCAC) — the platform powering enterprise-grade automation from firmware to full-scale AI workloads across data center and edge environments. This is a high-impact, highly visible role where you’ll shape secure, scalable cloud architectures, guide customers from concept to production, and define the patterns that enable AI infrastructure at global scale. If you want to build the backbone of modern automation — not just deploy it — this is where you make your mark.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Leading architecture, design for cloud-based orchestration and provisioning solutions • Evaluating new technologies and rapidly developing proof-of-concepts that can be taken to production ready products • Own end-to-end solution delivery for SCAC discovery, architecture, implementation, and production readiness • Create and socialize architectural artifacts in the form of HLD/LLD, integration diagrams, data flows, and ADR’s • Design integration patterns across Supermicro Software Stack, DCBBS, Kubernetes cluster, Data center level monitoring and reporting platform, OpenShift, VMware, storage, network, and CI/CD • Identify and close design gaps and risks while proposing mitigation options with clear trade-offs and TCO impact • Establish and enforce standards in the form of reference architectures, golden paths, and IaC modules • Champion security-by-design with zero-trust principles, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance guardrails • Define orchestration workflows for cluster bring-up, upgrades, patching, and teardown • Specify installer strategy and UX, including preflight checks, image registry, mirror configuration, repository layout, admin node, IP addressing, and hypervisor flags. • Formalize integration contracts, API contracts, API’s with SCAC, telemetry, logging, and external registries • Lead performance, scalability, modeling, and validation to include, but not limited to, concurrency limits, queue backoff, and artifact caching • Guide delivery execution from design to GA, acceptance criteria, risk registers, exit gates, and sign-offs for security, scale, and operability • Validate the end-to-end solutions in reference labs and customer environments, ensuring upgrade and rollback readiness, and versioning and packing strategy
Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field • 10+ years in technical lead role, solutions, systems, and software owning HLD and LLD with cross-team design inputs • Strong Python coding, analysis, debugging and problem solving • Hands on Linux development, Docker, Containers, plus experience with OpenShift or vanilla K8s with understanding controllers, operators, and multi-clusters • Experience in Git based development, SQL or NoSQL databases ( e.g. PostgreSQL), Restful API design. • Security fundamentals, zero-trust principles, image signing, and SBOM basics in vulnerability management • Experience in architecting end-to-end solutions, systems management framework for private cloud-based offerings • Excellent communication, documentation skills
Salary Range
$140,000 - $190,000
The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.
EEO Statement
Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.