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Infrastructure Engineer, Distributed Systems
Job Summary
Infrastructure engineer role focused on building and operating high-concurrency distributed systems that support simulation environments. The position involves maintaining production infrastructure at scale and optimizing performance for thousands of concurrent sessions.
Essential Functions
- Operate distributed infrastructure supporting high-concurrency simulation environments
- Maintain and scale Firecracker microVM orchestration and bare metal compute clusters
- Build and improve high-throughput distributed storage and queuing systems
- Design and operate telemetry, logging, and observability systems
- Improve reliability, cold starts, uptime, and cost efficiency across the infrastructure stack
- Partner with research engineers to integrate training pipelines with infrastructure
- Handle on-call responsibilities for critical customer workloads
- Drive cost optimization and performance improvements
Required Qualifications
- 3 to 8 years of experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering
- Experience maintaining and scaling high-stakes production infrastructure
- Experience with storage-efficient snapshotting, copy-on-write, or forkable state systems
- Experience scaling infrastructure at a later-stage startup
- 2+ years of big tech infrastructure experience
- Large-scale distributed systems experience including queuing and distributed storage
- Bare metal compute and Linux kernel-level experience
- Proficiency in Python with Rust familiarity
- Experience with VM or container orchestration
- Experience building telemetry or observability pipelines at scale
Preferred Qualifications
- Computer science degree
- Experience with AI or ML infrastructure workloads
- Experience converting real-world data streams into simulations
- Experience with sandbox environments at scale
Technical Skills
- Python
- Rust
- Firecracker microVMs
- Bare metal compute
- Linux kernel configuration
- Redis
- Distributed storage systems
- VM orchestration
- Observability and telemetry pipelines
- High-throughput queuing systems
Education & Certifications
Computer science degree preferred but not required.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range $180,000 to $250,000.