Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer
Core
Building and operating a bare metal cloud platform from the ground up, managing thousands of physical hosts in colocation sites to provide persistent compute for developers.
Role type
Senior IC infrastructure engineer (bare metal)
Builds
A production-ready bare metal fleet and the automation platform connecting it to Kubernetes clusters
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, datacenter operations, hardware management
Required skills
Bare metal fleet automation, Go or Python, Linux, networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP), Kubernetes integration, hardware diagnostics, firmware management, DCIM/IPAM tools
Preferred skills
Large-scale host management (thousands), early-stage datacenter build-out, hybrid cloud/hardware environments, Ironic/Metal3/Tinkerbell/MAAS, Redfish/IPMI at fleet scale
Responsibilities
Take colocation sites from empty to production, design server provisioning workflows (netboot, imaging, BMC discovery), partner with network engineering on fleet connectivity, build interfaces for Kubernetes capacity requests, own fleet source of truth, automate server lifecycle (burn-in, testing, remediation, firmware rollout), shape technical direction and hire team members
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
