230K–290K USD / year
Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer
DevOpsRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-04
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About this role
Build and operate Render’s bare-metal infrastructure, starting with its first colocation site and scaling toward thousands of hosts. Develop automated systems for provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management, working closely with networking and Kubernetes platform teams.
About the company
Render is a cloud platform for deploying web services, databases, and static sites with managed infrastructure. It targets developers who want production hosting without operating their own cloud stack.
The team
Infrastructure Team
Stack
GoPythonLinuxKubernetesDHCPPXEDNSBGP
What you'll do
- Bring the first colocation site from an empty cage to production and scale the setup across future sites.
- Automate server discovery, imaging, provisioning, testing, firmware rollout, remediation, and RMA.
- Partner with network engineering on out-of-band management and production connectivity.
- Build interfaces for the Kubernetes platform team to request capacity, inspect host health, and coordinate maintenance.
- Maintain the source of truth for hardware, software, and physical infrastructure.
- Design safe, failure-tolerant automation and help set the platform’s technical and operational direction.
What we're looking for
- Experience building and operating bare-metal fleet automation in datacenters or colocation facilities.
- Hands-on experience with physical hardware, colocation providers, and software-driven fleet management.
- Strong Go or Python skills and experience with reconciliation loops, idempotency, and failure-tolerant systems.
- Deep Linux knowledge and networking fundamentals, including DHCP, PXE, DNS, and BGP.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and how fleet infrastructure interfaces with clusters.
- Experience responding to hardware, BMC, or rollout failures.
Nice to have
- Experience operating fleets of thousands of hosts or building a datacenter platform from its early stages.
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure or moving workloads between public cloud and owned hardware.
- Familiarity with NetBox, Nautobot, Ironic, Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS.
- Experience with physical-infrastructure reconcilers, hardware diagnostics, firmware, Redfish, or IPMI.
- Experience building internal platforms or APIs for infrastructure teams.
- Located near colocation sites or able to visit regularly.
Benefits
- Four weeks of paid vacation.
- Fourteen weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for the employee and a dependent.
- 401(k), long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend and cell phone/internet subsidy.
- Home office stipend for remote employees.
- Continuous learning support.