Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

Location: Remote in the United States; San Francisco headquarters and colocation sites are referenced, with regular site visits potentially required.

Salary: $230K–$290K annually plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is building a developer-focused cloud platform for AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications with persistent compute, autoscaling, orchestration, and observability.

What you will do

• Build hirify.global's first colocation site from an empty cage to production workloads and scale the platform to additional sites and thousands of hosts.
• Design low-touch server provisioning, including netboot, imaging, BMC-driven discovery, and host identity.
• Partner with network engineering on out-of-band management and production connectivity.
• Build interfaces for the Kubernetes platform to request capacity, monitor host health, and coordinate maintenance.
• Own hardware, software, and physical-environment inventory while automating burn-in, acceptance testing, firmware rollouts, remediation, and RMA.
• Set the technical and operational direction for the bare metal platform, including build-versus-buy decisions and team growth.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and operating bare metal fleet automation in datacenters or colocation environments.
• Experience with both physical hardware and colocation providers and software-driven fleet management.
• Strong Go or Python skills and experience designing reconciliation loops, idempotent actions, and failure-tolerant systems.
• Ability to debug infrastructure below the abstraction layer and operate through failures such as bad hardware batches, unstable BMCs, or halted rollouts.
• Deep Linux knowledge and solid networking fundamentals, including DHCP, PXE, DNS, and BGP.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes sufficient to design the interface between the fleet and Kubernetes clusters.
• Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to challenge unsound plans.
• Applicants requiring new visa sponsorship need business authorization; the role is generally not eligible for new sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience operating bare metal fleets at thousands-of-host scale or participating in an early-stage bare metal or datacenter build-out.
• Experience with hybrid environments or moving workloads between public cloud and owned hardware.
• Experience with NetBox, Nautobot, Ironic, Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS.
• Experience building reconcilers or state machines for physical infrastructure.
• Hardware expertise including component diagnostics, burn-in tooling, firmware, Redfish, or IPMI at fleet scale.
• Experience building internal platforms or APIs for infrastructure teams.
• Being based near colocation sites or able to visit them regularly.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, experienced infrastructure team with substantial ownership and close collaboration across network engineering and Kubernetes platform teams.
• Culture emphasizing integrity, humility, learning, thoughtful debate, feedback, trust, and respect.
• Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus disability, life insurance, 401(k), FSA, and HSA plans.
• Wellness and mental-health stipend, phone and internet subsidy, remote home-office stipend, and continuous learning support.

Hiring process

• The interview process is tailored to the role and is designed to include thoughtful, respectful conversations.
• Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed requirement.