Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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