Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer
Designworks Talent Bellevue, Washington, United States
Staffing and Recruiting · 2-10 employees
About the role
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, automation, and provisioning systems for large-scale AI compute, networking, and storage clusters. Optimize system performance and ensure operational excellence for mission-critical AI workloads including model training and inference.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 5+ years of experience in designing and operating large-scale Linux-based infrastructure and production-level distributed systems. Proficiency in Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible is essential.
Benefits
Full description
Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA Area Titles: Senior | Staff | Principal (multiple roles available)
Build the Data Center Software Infrastructure
About the Opportunity
A well-funded, rapidly growing AI infrastructure company is building a next-generation cloud platform designed to power the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence. The organization is developing a comprehensive AI infrastructure, platform, and services portfolio that supports the full spectrum of AI workloads including large-scale compute, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and emerging agentic AI applications.
Backed by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization. Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging modern tooling and automation to build infrastructure capable of supporting the industry's most demanding AI workloads.
We're seeking Data Center Software Engineers to lead the design, development, configuration, and automation of AI infrastructure clusters.
The Opportunity
Your responsibility begins once servers and racks are installed in the data center and extends through software deployment, networking, configuration, cluster bring-up, and automation, ensuring the platform is fully operational and ready for customer workloads.
What You'll Do
- Develop infrastructure-as-code, automation, and provisioning systems for compute, networking, and storage.
- Deploy and optimize Kubernetes, container, and distributed computing platforms.
- Optimize GPU, networking, storage, and system performance for large-scale AI workloads.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware, operating systems, networking, storage, and software stacks.
- Build reliability, observability, and operational excellence practices for mission-critical infrastructure
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, or operating large-scale Linux-based infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and distributed systems in production environments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience operating cloud or datacenter-scale infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hardware lifecycle management platforms (e.g., MAAS, Ironic, xCAT, Foreman, or similar).
- Experience with IPMI, Redfish, PXE boot, and automated operating system deployment at scale.
- Experience managing GPU clusters in datacenter or cloud environments.
Compensation
- Competitive base pay for Bellevue market
- Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and long term incentives. These awards are allocated based on individual performance
- U.S. based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, employees also receive per calendar year, paid holidays.
Location
- Hybrid role based in the Bellevue, WA area.
- Approximately three days per week in the office.
- Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. who are open to relocation are encouraged to apply.
- U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Why Join?
- Build the inference platform powering the next generation of AI applications.
- Work directly on large-scale model serving, GPU optimization, and production AI systems.
- Solve complex challenges around latency, throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Join early enough to influence architecture, tooling, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with a highly experienced team building critical AI infrastructure from the ground up.
- Enjoy the ownership and technical impact of a startup environment backed by significant long-term investment.