Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Infrastructure Software & Automation

• Design, build, and operate production services, APIs, tooling, and automation for large-scale bare-metal and GPU infrastructure.
• Build software systems for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Develop reliable automation that reduces manual operational work and improves consistency and scalability.
• Build tools and interfaces for programmatic interaction with physical infrastructure.

Provisioning & Lifecycle Management

• Develop systems for server discovery, provisioning, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.
• Automate infrastructure bring-up and capacity deployment across large fleets of compute systems.
• Integrate software and automation with hardware management and provisioning systems.
• Improve tooling and workflows across the infrastructure production lifecycle.

Reliability & Observability

• Build telemetry, logging, and observability capabilities for infrastructure health visibility.
• Develop tools and automation to identify, diagnose, and respond to infrastructure and hardware issues.
• Convert recurring operational issues and hardware failure modes into improvements to software, tooling, and automation.
• Improve the reliability and scalability of infrastructure operations.

Architecture & Collaboration

• Partner with Network, Infrastructure Operations, Data Center, and Platform Engineering teams to define requirements and deliver infrastructure capabilities.
• Participate in architectural discussions and help define the technical direction of infrastructure software.
• Make pragmatic design decisions balancing reliability, scalability, simplicity, and execution speed.
• Write design documents and technical documentation and contribute to engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production backend systems in Python or similar object-oriented languages.
• Strong experience with Linux in production environments.
• Experience building APIs, tooling, or automation for managing infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration concepts.
• Understanding of HPC and bare-metal infrastructure fundamentals, including provisioning and out-of-band management.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic architecture decisions for long-term reliability and scale.
• Experience in a startup or other fast-paced environment with substantial ownership and autonomy.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with bare-metal hardware troubleshooting and provisioning, including PXE/iPXE, BMC, Redfish, or IPMI, particularly with Dell hardware.
• Experience with GPU servers in bare-metal or virtualized environments.
• Experience with network switches, routers, and firewalls, particularly SONiC switches, Palo Alto firewalls, or Juniper Networks.
• Experience with high-performance storage systems, particularly VAST.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or HPC infrastructure at scale.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual base salary: $180,000–$220,000 USD.
• Discretionary bonus and meaningful equity component.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
• Two-week company-wide winter break.
• Paid parental and family leave.
• Annual learning and development allowance.
• Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
• Four-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Flexible schedules and hybrid work model.
• Complimentary in-office meals.