Platform Engineer: Virtualization & Providers (Hybrid, Austin)

ORC8R; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage

Standard benefits

Job summary

ORC8R is hiring a Platform Engineer in Austin, TX, to build provider integrations and manage bare metal and VM resources. This role sits at the boundary between the control plane and underlying infrastructure and requires strong virtualization experience.

Candidate should have 3+ years in infrastructure systems, Rust proficiency or willingness to learn, and be based in or willing to relocate to Austin. Hybrid work model with in-office days.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience working with infrastructure systems, including virtualization or bare metal provisioning.
• Proficiency in Rust, or strong systems programming experience with a willingness to learn Rust.
• Experience with hypervisors, virtual machine lifecycle management or image based deployment.
• Strong debugging skills for issues that manifest only on physical hardware.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain provider integrations that provision bare metal and virtual machine resources
• Develop image baking and cloning workflows to enable fast, consistent node provisioning
• Extend virtualization support to macOS and Windows alongside the existing Linux backend
• Diagnose issues at the boundary between the control plane and physical or virtualized infrastructure
• Produce clear technical documentation for operational and troubleshooting procedures

Skills

Infrastructure systems

Rust

Hypervisors / VM lifecycle

Debugging

Austin relocation

Tools

Apple Virtualization Framework

Cloud Hypervisor

QEMU

Job description

ORC8R is hiring a Platform Engineer in Austin, TX, to build provider integrations and manage bare metal and VM resources. This role sits at the boundary between the control plane and underlying infrastructure and requires strong virtualization experience.

Candidate should have 3+ years in infrastructure systems, Rust proficiency or willingness to learn, and be based in or willing to relocate to Austin. Hybrid work model with in-office days.