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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer III – Platform Software - **Company:** ClearCompany - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $146,600.0 - $183,250.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Command-Line Interface, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Webui, Software Engineering, Software Application Programming, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=3782520&req_loc=1423832&&cust_sort1=29268&&nohd#job ## About the Role * Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field; or equivalent combination of degree and experience * Minimum of 3 years of experience building ML infrastructure (compute and storage) * Strong software engineering in Go, with Kubernetes operators or controllers shipped to production Preferred Education and Experience * Proficiency with building applications on Kubernetes * Telemetry fluency with Prometheus, and log pipelines * Cloud expertise, multi-cloud preferred (AWS and GCP) * Experience with testing, CI/CD, and quality standards as habits * Comfort running security reviews of your own systems, including compliance-scoped workloads * Empathy for researchers as users, and for their workflows * GPU scheduler internals, NVIDIA stack, JupyterHub internals, HPC-to-Kubernetes migrations, FinOps / billing system exposure Physical Demands * Fine motor movements in fingers/hands to operate computers and other office equipment Position Type/Expected Hours of Work * This role is currently able to work both remotely and onsite in a hybrid work environment. We are a Washington State employer, and the primary work location for all Allen Institute employees is 615 Westlake Ave N.; any remote work must be performed in Washington State. ## Description * Own the control plane surface scientists and admins touch daily (API, web UI, and CLI) * Own Kubernetes-native platform software - operators, CRDs, and controllers for tenancy, storage, and job lifecycle across large workloads and interactive compute * Telemetry as a product: provide data for understanding capacity, utilization and improvement opportunities * Ship with production discipline - CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and quality standards - and hold that bar for work delivered by partner and vendor teams * Own security and compliance of what you build * Work across the AWS and GCP services the platform composes (eg EKS, GKE, FSx, S3, and GCS) * Implement experiences for the whole Institute for cutting-edge AI methods - learn emerging practices and build or scale toolkits for agentic science, data access, and AI-augmented research * Collaborate with Allen Institute and vendor teams spanning scientists, engineers, and service Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 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