Platform Engineer – Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North America.

📋 Description

• Automate the complete server lifecycle from start to finish, encompassing provisioning, operating system installations, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning.

• Develop and sustain tools for fleet interaction so that engineers do not have to manually configure machines repeatedly.

• Standardize the software build and deployment processes to machines using CI pipelines, artifacts, deployment tools, and rollback mechanisms.

• Implement security roadmap initiatives, which include SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege access, and maintaining audit trails.

• Assess fleet costs, including cost per workload, provider comparisons, and decisions regarding hardware refresh, and provide recommendations.

• Enhance infrastructure observability and engage in on-call duties and incident responses.

• Create runbooks and documentation for a remote team.

• Collaborate with the Platform team to support Helius's bare-metal global edge network and high-performance services.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

• Practical experience with bare metal, including provisioning and managing physical servers (PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs).

• Familiarity with colocation or dedicated server providers.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues related to hardware versus software.

• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance tuning.

• Experience in configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Nix).

• Proficient scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.

• A security-focused mindset that encompasses access control, blast radius, and secrets management.

• Experience with Rust or a willingness to learn and debug Rust services (preferred).

• Background in high-performance networking or low-latency systems (preferred).

• Familiarity with tools like ClickHouse, Prometheus, or Grafana (preferred).

• Experience at a high-scale B2B infrastructure company (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity.

• Generous vacation policy.

• Wellness budgets.

• Support for learning opportunities and travel.

• Flexible, fully remote work environment.