Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

Key

Responsibilities - Build and maintain services that interact with server BMCs over IPMI and Redfish across a heterogeneous hardware fleet (Dell, Supermicro, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA platforms) - Develop control-plane tooling for DPU provisioning and lifecycle management (NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando) - Implement and harden serial-over-LAN, virtual media, and remote console workflows - Write Rust services (and Go/PHP where appropriate) that are observable, well-tested, and safe to run unattended at fleet scale - Contribute to internal SDKs and shared libraries used by other infrastructure teams - Partner with datacenter operations and hardware vendors to debug firmware, BMC, and DPU behavior in production - Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations for the OOB control plane - Improve test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that lets us ship hardware automation safely - Document interfaces, runbooks, and failure modes so the system stays operable as it grows

Qualifications - 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services or systems software - Production experience in at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++ -- and willingness to ramp on Rust as the primary language - Solid working knowledge of Linux -- processes, networking, systemd, basic kernel concepts - Comfortable with HTTP APIs, JSON, gRPC, and at least one of the common RPC/IPC patterns - Familiarity with at least one of IPMI, Redfish, BMC tooling, PXE/iPXE, or bare metal provisioning -- or strong systems fundamentals and clear interest in learning it - Comfortable reading vendor documentation, RFCs, and packet captures to figure out how something actually works - Strong written communication -- can write a clear design doc, PR description, or incident postmortem - Bonus: exposure to DPUs, SmartNICs, SR-IOV, IOMMU, or virtualization stacks (KVM/QEMU/libvirt) - Bonus: experience with BGP, VXLAN, or datacenter networking Compensation $80,000 - $95,000 Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.

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