Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer
Designworks Talent
Full Time5+ yearsPosted 30 days ago
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Overview
Position Type
Full Time
Experience
5+ years
Job Description
Build the Data Center Software Infrastructure
The Opportunity
Your responsibility begins once servers and racks are installed in the data center and extends through software deployment, networking, configuration, cluster bring-up, and automation, ensuring the platform is fully operational and ready for customer workloads.
What You'll Do
- Develop infrastructure-as-code, automation, and provisioning systems for compute, networking, and storage.
- Deploy and optimize Kubernetes, container, and distributed computing platforms.
- Optimize GPU, networking, storage, and system performance for large-scale AI workloads.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware, operating systems, networking, storage, and software stacks.
- Build reliability, observability, and operational excellence practices for mission-critical infrastructure
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, or operating large-scale Linux-based infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and distributed systems in production environments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience operating cloud or datacenter-scale infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hardware lifecycle management platforms (e.g., MAAS, Ironic, xCAT, Foreman, or similar).
- Experience with IPMI, Redfish, PXE boot, and automated operating system deployment at scale.
- Experience managing GPU clusters in datacenter or cloud environments.
Compensation
- Competitive base pay for Bellevue market
- Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and long term incentives. These awards are allocated based on individual performance
- U.S. based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, employees also receive per calendar year, paid holidays.
Location
- Hybrid role based in the Bellevue, WA area.
- Approximately three days per week in the office.
- Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. who are open to relocation are encouraged to apply.
- U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Why Join?
- Build the inference platform powering the next generation of AI applications.
- Work directly on large-scale model serving, GPU optimization, and production AI systems.
- Solve complex challenges around latency, throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Join early enough to influence architecture, tooling, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with a highly experienced team building critical AI infrastructure from the ground up.
- Enjoy the ownership and technical impact of a startup environment backed by significant long-term investment.