Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding engineer and technical lead for a new infrastructure group, reporting closely to senior technical leadership. Take charge of physical server deployments and their day-to-day operation, from vendor relationships through live production support. Write supporting software step by step as operational needs become clear.

What you'll do

- Lead the infrastructure group as its first engineer and technical owner.

- Work with colocation providers and hardware suppliers, including acceptance checks on new equipment.

- Configure operating systems and drivers, and manage secure server access.

- Stand up, automate, troubleshoot and run a live container orchestration cluster.

- Track performance, maintain systems, write documentation and handle incidents.

- Develop internal tooling over time covering areas such as machine setup, health monitoring, APIs, job scheduling and network and storage layers.

- Check and validate every piece of code, configuration and live system, including work drafted with AI tools.

- Travel to datacenters when deployment and operational work calls for it.

- Help build and lead the team as it grows.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- A bachelor's degree.

- Availability to work on-site full-time in San Francisco.

- Strong practical experience running production Kubernetes clusters, from setup through ongoing operation.

- A track record of taking accelerated-compute hardware from first installation to steady production use.

- Experience deploying and running physical server infrastructure, working with datacenters, colocation sites or hardware vendors.

- Experience writing production-grade software in a low-level language such as Go or Rust.

- Demonstrated relevant work and sound practical judgment.

- Willingness to provide a separate writing sample.

Bonus points

- Prior experience mentoring, hiring or leading engineers.

- Background in Linux administration and site reliability work, including services, patching and diagnostics.

- Experience running large server fleets.

- Familiarity with job schedulers, environment management and configuration management tools.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 275,000 to 350,000 per year

- Equity

- Performance bonus

- Relocation support

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site

- Full-time