Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will develop and maintain tools and services for software build and release processes. You will deploy services with Kubernetes and Docker, manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, support junior and graduate engineers, and improve reliability while reducing operational toil.
Requirements
- Knowledge of Python, Go, C++ or a similar language
- Experience deploying services in the cloud, preferably AWS
- Deep understanding of Linux environments
- Experience with CI/CD for production deployments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
- Experience with Kubernetes or OpenStack
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with build tools such as CMake
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
Responsibilities
- Develop, own and maintain tools and services for software build and release
- Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
- Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform
- Support the technical development of junior and graduate engineers
- Improve reliability and minimize operational toil
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous annual leave
- Private medical insurance
- Health cash plan
- Dental plan
- Pension matched up to 5%
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Generous parental leave
- Employee assistance programme
- Healthy food and snacks
- On-site barista