Software Engineer – Core Cloud Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +32 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain services that communicate with server BMCs via IPMI and Redfish across a diverse hardware ecosystem (Dell, Supermicro, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA platforms)

• Create tooling for control-plane DPU provisioning and lifecycle management (NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando)

• Implement and enhance workflows for serial-over-LAN, virtual media, and remote console

• Write services in Rust (and utilize Go/PHP where suitable) that are observable, thoroughly tested, and safe for unattended operation at fleet scale

• Contribute to internal SDKs and shared libraries utilized by other infrastructure teams

• Collaborate with datacenter operations and hardware vendors to troubleshoot firmware, BMC, and DPU performance in a production environment

• Engage in design reviews, code reviews, and take part in on-call rotations for the OOB control plane

• Enhance test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and tools that allow for safe deployment of hardware automation

• Document interfaces, runbooks, and failure scenarios to ensure the system remains operational as it evolves

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in software engineering, focusing on backend services or systems software

• Experience in production with at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++ -- and a willingness to learn Rust as the primary programming language

• Strong understanding of Linux -- including processes, networking, systemd, and basic kernel concepts

• Proficient with HTTP APIs, JSON, gRPC, and familiarity with at least one common RPC/IPC pattern

• Knowledge of at least one of IPMI, Redfish, BMC tooling, PXE/iPXE, or bare metal provisioning -- or a strong foundation in systems and a keen interest in learning

• Ability to read vendor documentation, RFCs, and packet captures to understand system operations

• Excellent written communication skills -- capable of creating clear design documents, PR descriptions, or incident postmortems

• Bonus: familiarity with DPUs, SmartNICs, SR-IOV, IOMMU, or virtualization stacks (KVM/QEMU/libvirt)

• Bonus: experience with BGP, VXLAN, or datacenter networking

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental, and vision plans.

• 401(k) plan matching 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting

• Annual Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500

• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan

• Commitment is valued at Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 and 10-year anniversaries + a 1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year

• $500 stipend for remote office setup in the first year + $400 each subsequent year

• Internet reimbursement of up to $75 per month

• Gym membership reimbursement of up to $50 per month

• Company-paid Wellable subscription