Lab Infrastructure Engineer — Rack & Data Center Ops

Gavroche; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision packages

Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch + dinner

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for its Infra Labs to own and operate rack and server infrastructure across labs and data centers. You will bring up networks, provisioning, storage, and observability, ensuring systems are healthy and scalable from day one.

The role is hands-on, not cloud or production SRE, with opportunities to build automated provisioning stacks and expand lab capabilities across Milpitas, Santana Row, and Bay Area sites.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare-metal operations experience in on-prem environments.
• Strong Linux systems skills on bare metal, including kernel and driver debugging, PCIe, NIC troubleshooting, storage, and boot issues.
• Experience provisioning bare-metal fleets over the network with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and DNS, and using BMCs for out-of-band management.

Responsibilities

• Own the management and support of racks and server infrastructure across labs and data center sites.
• Deliver full-stack infrastructure for new lab and data center sites: compute, networking, storage, and core services.

Skills

Bare-metal ops

Linux systems

PXE/iPXE provisioning

Ansible & Python

Observability stacks (Prometheus, Graf

Tools

PXE/iPXE

DHCP/DNS

Redfish/OpenBMC

BMC/IPMI

Slurm/Kubernetes

Job description

Etched is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for its Infra Labs to own and operate rack and server infrastructure across labs and data centers. You will bring up networks, provisioning, storage, and observability, ensuring systems are healthy and scalable from day one.

The role is hands-on, not cloud or production SRE, with opportunities to build automated provisioning stacks and expand lab capabilities across Milpitas, Santana Row, and Bay Area sites.