HPC Data Center Production Engineer (Golang)

TL;DR

HPC Data Center Production Engineer (Golang): Building and owning automation and tooling for HPC data center operations with an accent on hardware onboarding, capacity planning, and monitoring integration. Focus on developing production-ready systems for lifecycle management and leveraging AI tools to accelerate development velocity.

Location: On-site 5 days/week in Chicago, IL or New York, NY

Company

hirify.global Group is a global quantitative trading firm that applies cutting-edge research to financial markets through a culture of innovation and collaboration.

What you will do

• Design and maintain automation to onboard servers, network switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, and environmental sensors.
• Build end-to-end provisioning workflows from racking and cabling through to a production-ready state.
• Develop tools for power and cooling capacity planning and outage simulation to model failure impacts.
• Integrate hardware telemetry via IPMI, BMC, Redfish, and SNMP into centralized observability platforms.
• Collaborate with HPC Planning and Engineering leads to translate operational pain points into automated solutions.
• Utilize AI tools daily for coding, debugging, and implementing predictive capacity planning.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, infrastructure automation, or SRE.
• High proficiency in Golang and at least one other language such as Python.
• Deep Linux systems knowledge, including administration, networking, and OS-level troubleshooting.
• Experience with IaC tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform) and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB).
• Solid understanding of L2/L3 protocols, VLANs, BGP, and switch configuration (Arista, Cisco).
• Must be able to work on-site 5 days a week in Chicago or New York.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture of fearlessness, creativity, and intellectual honesty.
• Collaborative environment where research outcomes drive superior returns.
• Opportunity to work with high-performance computing and world-class infrastructure.
• Commitment to maintaining extremely high personal standards for work quality.