Bare Metal Cloud Engineer: Build Scalable AI Infra

Render; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks paid vacation

14 weeks parental leave

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401K plan

Wellness lifestyle stipend

Cell phone and internet subsidy

Commuter benefits in Bay Area

Job summary

Render is seeking an infrastructure engineer to design and operate a bare metal fleet across datacenters and colocation sites. You will own automation, scale the initial site to thousands of hosts, and drive reliability and performance from the metal up.

You’ll partner with network engineering and the Kubernetes platform team, build capacity-request interfaces, maintain a single source of truth for hardware and software, and implement production-grade lifecycle automation with strong guardrails.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colo
• Experience with physical hardware and colo providers
• Strong Go or Python and system design with idempotent actions
• Deep Linux knowledge and networking fundamentals
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and fleet interfaces
• Experience debugging and operating through real hardware failures
• Clear communication and comfort with ambiguity
• Willingness to push back on plans when needed

Responsibilities

• Take first colocation site from empty cage to production workloads and scale to multiple sites
• Design server deployment flow from loading dock to production (netboot, imaging, BMC discovery, identity)
• Collaborate with network engineering on fleet needs from out‑of‑band management to production connectivity
• Build interfaces for the Kubernetes platform team to request capacity, monitor health, and coordinate maintenance
• Own the fleet's source of truth for hardware, software, and physical environment
• Automate full server lifecycle including burn‑in, remediation, firmware rollout, and RMA
• Create production‑grade automation with guardrails to prevent destructive actions
• Shape technical and operational direction of the bare metal platform and help hire the team

Skills

Bare metal fleets

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Go or Python

Kubernetes basics

colo/datacenter experience

System design with idempotence

Failure handling

Tools

NetBox

Nautobot

Ironic/Metal3

Tinkerbell

MAAS

Job description

Render is seeking an infrastructure engineer to design and operate a bare metal fleet across datacenters and colocation sites. You will own automation, scale the initial site to thousands of hosts, and drive reliability and performance from the metal up.

You’ll partner with network engineering and the Kubernetes platform team, build capacity-request interfaces, maintain a single source of truth for hardware and software, and implement production-grade lifecycle automation with strong guardrails.