Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

We are seeking a highly technical Staff Software Engineer – Server Infrastructure & Automation to help modernize and automate enterprise infrastructure across large-scale data center environments.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering . The ideal candidate is a software-minded infrastructure engineer who understands how systems work under the hood and can build software and automation that manages physical and virtual infrastructure at scale.

This is not a traditional cloud engineer, DevOps engineer, or application software developer role . The focus is on building infrastructure software, automation, orchestration, and platform capabilities that improve the reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency of enterprise infrastructure.

The team is undergoing a significant transformation toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure model , modernizing legacy systems while introducing more cloud-native capabilities. This role will help identify gaps in existing infrastructure, automate manual processes, and engineer new solutions for infrastructure lifecycle management.

USC/GCH ONLY - W2 ONLY

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical owner for enterprise server infrastructure platforms across their lifecycle, including evaluation, deployment, maintenance, refresh, and retirement.
• Design and develop software systems that automate infrastructure deployment, provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, and remediation.
• Build automation and orchestration solutions using technologies such as Python, Ansible, Go, Java, or similar languages and frameworks.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management solutions that standardize infrastructure operations.
• Build automated workflows capable of detecting infrastructure issues, creating tickets, initiating remediation, and escalating issues when human intervention is required.
• Contribute to self-monitoring and self-healing infrastructure capabilities.
• Engineer solutions that interact directly with physical servers, operating systems, firmware, networking, storage, and infrastructure APIs.
• Support bare-metal operating system environments and infrastructure platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware, firmware, drivers, operating systems, networking, storage, and infrastructure software.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure through automation while maintaining a deep understanding of existing technologies and dependencies.
• Design and implement infrastructure services, APIs, control-plane capabilities, and orchestration workflows.
• Apply software engineering principles to infrastructure systems, including testing, version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and maintainable system design.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, storage, security, cloud, and application engineering teams.
• Develop technical documentation, architecture standards, operational procedures, automation playbooks, and support runbooks.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual operational work and improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, and resiliency.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of hybrid cloud infrastructure and cloud-native platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong foundation in infrastructure software engineering and experience building software systems within an infrastructure domain.
• Experience designing and developing software or automation that manages infrastructure at scale.
• Strong programming experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust, C#, or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, particularly Python and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Linux and enterprise operating system fundamentals.
• Experience working with legacy infrastructure and the ability to understand existing systems at a deep technical level.
• Understanding of server architecture, compute, memory, storage, networking, firmware, drivers, and operating system components.
• Experience with infrastructure APIs, orchestration, automation frameworks, or platform services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Distributed systems and distributed infrastructure.
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, or parallel processing.
• Experience developing infrastructure control planes or orchestration systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes internals, operators, controllers, or control-plane architecture.
• Experience with storage systems, software-defined storage, or storage orchestration.
• Experience with technologies such as Ceph, NVMe, filesystems, replication, or cluster management .
• Experience with private cloud or cloud-native infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building internal infrastructure services similar to compute, storage, container, or orchestration platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, observability, automated ticketing, and incident-management integrations.
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and large-scale data center environments.
• Experience modernizing legacy infrastructure into automated or cloud-native platforms.