Senior Infrastructure Engineer

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Irreducible, you will develop systems for deploying software and firmware images to our bare metal server cluster and help manage our software development environments. Our production infrastructure includes connected FPGA-based high-performance compute servers, monitoring and logging services, blockchain network nodes, and API gateways, spanning both a bare-metal deployment and public cloud environments like AWS and GCP. 

Infrastructure team members work closely with the hardware engineers and systems software engineers to specify the production requirements and build tools to empower the team to ship code to production securely, efficiently, and with full confidence and transparency.

Being a self-starter is essential, as there are always a variety of challenges that need to be tackled. Your work will have a direct impact on our growth and success.

Necessary Qualifications:

• Experienced and well-versed in Linux, version control, scripting, and build systems

• Experience developing reproducible software build configurations

• Familiarity with blockchain network nodes and fundamental concepts

• Understanding of computer architecture and configuration

• Strong knowledge of Python, Go, or Rust

• A deep passion for technology, software development, and secure computing

• Demonstrated ability to deliver software projects from inception to completion in a fast-pace environment

• Ability to think across layers of abstractions

• Understanding of technology tradeoffs and a pragmatic approach to problem solving

• Strong written and verbal communications skills

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience modifying and contributing to open-source codebases

• Experience implementing high-performance software and distributed systems

• Understanding of computer security principles

• Understanding of virtualization

• Experience working with:

  • Virtualization tools like Docker and Qemu

  • Hardware accelerators

  • Embedded system firmware builds

  • Server deployments using network booting

  • Devops tools like Terraform and Ansible

• Knowledge of Rust

• Knowledge of AWS and/or GCP