Job Description

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