Senior Principal Engineer – Infrastructure Engineering
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Atom Computing
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boulder • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxTerraform
About the role
- Administer and maintain a fleet of on-premise Linux servers (and a few Windows VMs) to ensure reliable and performant operation of the quantum computing environment
- Design and implement automated workflows for managing and scaling cloud and on-premise infrastructure
- Build and optimize monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics systems to support both development and production environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment efficiency
- Work across the entire stack to enable engineers and physicists to seamlessly deploy software and operate the system with reliability and efficiency
- Report to the Software Engineering Manager and collaborate with a team of engineers and physicists
- Required to be in the office in Boulder at least 3 days per week due to mix of on-prem and cloud infrastructure
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent on-the-job experience
- Minimum 5+ years of post-degree professional experience maintaining large scale distributed systems
- Strong understanding of cloud deployment and infrastructure management using Azure, AWS or GCP
- Experience with on-premise hardware services, including virtualization and containerization management solutions such as Proxmox VE, Docker and Podman
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions
- Ability to optimize and tune on-premise hardware for performance and low latency using tools such as perf, systemd-analyze, iostat, and tuning profiles
- Proficiency in designing and implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting pipelines using Datadog, Grafana, or other observability tools
- Skilled in architecting infrastructure workflows with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kubernetes
- Additional desirable experience: building and scaling a developer operations team, managing and optimizing databases, implementing security best practices, setting up/configuring physical and virtual networks, interfacing with cameras, motors, lasers, and other third party devices
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for our employees and their dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401K company matching
- Short- and long-term disability
- FSA
- Dependent care benefits
- Life insurance
- Drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches in our offices, every day
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Linux administrationWindows VM managementcloud infrastructure managementCI/CD pipelinesperformance tuningcontainerizationvirtualizationmonitoring systemsalerting systemsdistributed systems
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingteamworkorganizational skills
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science