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vultr - Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

Remote - USA$80k - $95k+ Equity3d ago

Remote Mid NA Materials Software Engineer Cloud Engineer Rust C++Go Linux Documentation PHP Plane Observable

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• $80,000 - $95,000 • Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws. • We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin. • INCLUSION & PRIVACY