Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

📋 Description

• Build and maintain host provisioning: PXE boot, Ansible, burn-in agents.
• Evolve orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, VM s.
• Optimize bin packing to maximize utilization and minimize costs.
• Own internal tooling for Railway engineers to interact with fleet.
• Build observability and alerting to catch fleet problems early.
• Design and maintain CI pipelines for shipping infrastructure code.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong distributed systems expertise; fault-tolerant, scalable services.
• Hands-on bare metal provisioning and configuration management.
• Experience building internal tools; emphasize developer experience.
• Ability to estimate solution longevity (12-18 months) in startups.
• Monitors and documentation requirements for your solutions.
• Strong prioritization amid startup ambiguity.
• Grit to implement, scale, and replace solutions when needed.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

🎁 Benefits

• Autonomy: few meetings; time sacred.
• Ownership culture with high autonomy.
• Novel problems and high-leverage solutions.
• Growth opportunities and career trajectory.
• Best-in-class benefits; health, equity, equipment stipend.