Staff Engineer

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure or systems at scale, with demonstrated technical leadership and ownership
• Strong Linux/Ubuntu systems administration experience
• Strong programming skills in Python with solid Bash/shell scripting knowledge
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or equivalent technologies
• Hands-on experience with bare-metal infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployment, operations, and lifecycle management
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including API-driven provisioning
• Strong networking fundamentals, including VLANs, DHCP, DNS, routing, bonding, and related networking concepts
• Experience with CI/CD and Git-driven infrastructure/configuration-management practices
• Experience developing or integrating systems using REST APIs and automation workflows
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• Strong understanding of secure, idempotent, and reproducible infrastructure automation, with the ability to rebuild systems from code rather than relying on manual configuration
• The original request requires 10+ years of systems engineering at scale along with strong systems/network architecture and information-security knowledge
• Experience with bare-metal provisioning technologies such as PXE boot, DHCP, TFTP, and cloud-init
• Familiarity with server-management interfaces and protocols such as IPMI, Redfish, iDRAC, or iLO
• Experience with HPC, GPU, accelerated compute, or other large-scale compute environments
• Experience with Salt or similar configuration-management technologies
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging systems
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar security and compliance frameworks
• Experience supporting infrastructure deployed across production or customer environments
• Experience building hybrid cloud or cloud-burst infrastructure
• These preferred skills preserve the more specialized technologies identified in the original request without requiring candidates to have worked with Dexterity's exact toolset

What the job involves

• As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Dexterity, you will design, build, and automate the infrastructure that powers Dexterity's development and production robotics systems
• You'll own critical areas of our bare-metal and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, compute, networking, Kubernetes, observability, security, and lifecycle management
• You'll work across Infrastructure, Software, Robotics, and other engineering teams to build secure, scalable, highly available systems while eliminating manual operational work through automation
• This is a hands-on Staff-level role for an engineer who can set technical direction, solve complex infrastructure problems, and build systems that scale as Dexterity grows
• Design and implement end-to-end automation for provisioning and lifecycle management of bare-metal HPC infrastructure
• Automate commissioning, OS installation, reprovisioning, and decommissioning using Dexterity's bare-metal provisioning systems
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using technologies such as Terraform, Salt, Python, and Git-based workflows
• Automate configuration and deployment of Linux/Ubuntu compute nodes, Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, monitoring, logging, and authentication services
• Develop APIs, scripts, controllers, and automation workflows that eliminate manual steps in server provisioning and configuration
• Integrate physical infrastructure provisioning with fleet management and other internal infrastructure services
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning for hybrid HPC and cloud-burst use cases
• Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices for infrastructure changes, including testing, review, rollout, and rollback
• Build automated hardware validation, health-checking, and diagnostic workflows
• Develop observability for provisioning status, failures, configuration drift, capacity, and overall infrastructure health
• Design and maintain secure, scalable, reliable, and highly available compute and network systems that support business objectives and service-level requirements
• Help establish and improve infrastructure security, reliability, compliance, and operational practices
• Help define the long-term architecture and technical direction for Dexterity's compute and infrastructure platforms
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through production deployment
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure automation, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Partner cross-functionally to research and design the next generation of compute and acceleration infrastructure for Dexterity
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing