Infra Engineer - Datacenters
Builds and operates global datacenters bridging physical infrastructure to software, focusing on performance, resilience, and reliability. Requires experience with Golang, gRPC, Postgres, OS primitives, oncall rotations, and delivering 0→N projects remotely.
About the job
Required Qualifications/Experience
- Built application level code (Golang, gRPC, Postgres, etc)
- Made use of OS primitives (syscalls, cgroups, etc)
- Delivered projects 0→N. Lead it, scaled it, seen your "brilliant solutions" become tech debt, etc
- Operated with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)
- Had enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
- Communicated clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
- Been oncall and know that you will be 1-2 weeks per quarter
- Constructed monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
- Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
Desired Qualifications/Experience
- Designed and procured $1m+ hardware for datacenters
- Managed and orchestrated supply chains globally
- Designed rack level layouts for optimal efficiency (heat/energy/etc)
- Built automated systems for inventory management up to PXE bootstrapping
Skills
Go, gRPC, Postgres, Syscalls, Cgroups, Monitoring, Alerts, Dashboards, Pxe, Datacenter Hardware
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