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
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