Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The Role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding engineer and technical lead for a new infrastructure group, reporting closely to senior technical leadership. Take charge of physical server deployments and their day-to-day operation, from vendor relationships through live production support. Write supporting software step by step as operational needs become clear. What You'll Do Lead the infrastructure group as its first engineer and technical owner. Work with colocation providers and hardware suppliers, including acceptance checks on new equipment. Configure operating systems and drivers, and manage secure server access. Stand up, automate, troubleshoot and run a live container orchestration cluster. Track performance, maintain systems, write documentation and handle incidents. Develop internal tooling over time covering areas such as machine setup, health monitoring, APIs, job scheduling and network and storage layers. Check and validate every piece of code, configuration and live system, including work drafted with AI tools. Travel to datacenters when deployment and operational work calls for it. Help build and lead the team as it grows. What We're Looking For A bachelor's degree. Availability to work on-site full-time in San Francisco. Strong practical experience running production Kubernetes clusters, from setup through ongoing operation. A track record of taking accelerated-compute hardware from first installation to steady production use. Experience deploying and running physical server infrastructure, working with datacenters, colocation sites or hardware vendors. Experience writing production-grade software in a low-level language such as Go or Rust. Demonstrated relevant work and sound practical judgment. Willingness to provide a separate writing sample. Bonus Points Prior experience mentoring, hiring or leading engineers. Background in Linux administration and site reliability work, including services, patching and diagnostics. Experience running large server fleets. Familiarity with job schedulers, environment management and configuration management tools. Relocation support. Location And Work Model San Francisco, CA, United States On-site Full-time Compensation, As The Posting Describes It Equity Performance bonus Software Company