Software Engineer – Core Cloud Engineering

Vultr

Software Engineer building out-of-band control plane for cloud infrastructure at Vultr. Collaborating on services interacting with hardware for a flexible cloud environment.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $80,000 - $95,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGRPCLinuxPHPRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain services that interact with server BMCs over IPMI and Redfish across a heterogeneous hardware fleet (Dell, Supermicro, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA platforms)
Develop control-plane tooling for DPU provisioning and lifecycle management (NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando)
Implement and harden serial-over-LAN, virtual media, and remote console workflows
Write Rust services (and Go/PHP where appropriate) that are observable, well-tested, and safe to run unattended at fleet scale
Contribute to internal SDKs and shared libraries used by other infrastructure teams
Partner with datacenter operations and hardware vendors to debug firmware, BMC, and DPU behavior in production
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations for the OOB control plane
Improve test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that lets us ship hardware automation safely
Document interfaces, runbooks, and failure modes so the system stays operable as it grows

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services or systems software
Production experience in at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++ -- and willingness to ramp on Rust as the primary language
Solid working knowledge of Linux -- processes, networking, systemd, basic kernel concepts
Comfortable with HTTP APIs, JSON, gRPC, and at least one of the common RPC/IPC patterns
Familiarity with at least one of IPMI, Redfish, BMC tooling, PXE/iPXE, or bare metal provisioning -- or strong systems fundamentals and clear interest in learning it
Comfortable reading vendor documentation, RFCs, and packet captures to figure out how something actually works
Strong written communication -- can write a clear design doc, PR description, or incident postmortem
Bonus: exposure to DPUs, SmartNICs, SR-IOV, IOMMU, or virtualization stacks (KVM/QEMU/libvirt)
Bonus: experience with BGP, VXLAN, or datacenter networking

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
$500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
Company paid Wellable subscription