Staff Systems Engineer (Cloud Operations & Support)
Company: Cadence Design Systems
Location: San Jose, CA (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-28
About this role
## At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Location: San Jose, CA OR Austin, TX, or Remote US
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Operations and Support Engineer to join our team. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role that will be pivotal in operations, and support of our cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of our cloud environment, from architecting and building high-performance clusters with CPUs and GPUs to deploying and optimizing our multi tenant cloud services in both private and public cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Supporting multiple geological locations to serve user communities across North America, Europe, and Asia sites.
- Focusing on improving customer productivity and committing to customer success.
- Driving the overall operational strategy for internal High-Performance Compute (HPC) clusters in Cadence cloud.
- Maintaining, enhancing, monitoring, reporting, and improving its efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical experience architecting, managing, and improving a HPC environment running Linux.
- At least 3 years working in a global group, coordinating support, strategies, projects, and operations across multiple geographies in a team-oriented approach
- Solid understanding and proven operational experience with HPC clusters, job submission/management technologies, cloud, and associated management tools.
- Proven experience working directly with engineering teams to collaboratively develop solutions to optimize their working environment (Direct EDA experience desired)
- Proven experience in capacity and performance management, optimizing performance, ensuring adequate capacity, working with customers on optimization of their workloads, and development and maintenance of key performance indicators
- A proven process focus shown through documentation, change management, incident ma...