Principal Data Center Infra & AI Platform Engineer

Designworks Talent

Bellevue (WA)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Designworks Talent is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer to join our AI infrastructure group in Bellevue, WA. This hybrid role focuses on designing, deploying, and automating data center software that powers large-scale AI workloads, from server provisioning to GPU clusters and production inference.

Collaborate on infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes deployments, and performance optimization in a lean, AI-native environment with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years designing, building, or operating large-scale Linux-based infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and distributed systems in production environments.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible.

Responsibilities

  • Develop infrastructure-as-code, automation, and provisioning systems for compute, networking, and storage.
  • Deploy and optimize Kubernetes, container, and distributed computing platforms.
  • Optimize GPU, networking, storage, and system performance for large-scale AI workloads.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware, operating systems, networking, storage, and software stacks.
  • Build reliability, observability, and operational excellence practices for mission-critical infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes
Linux
Distributed systems
Automation
Containerization
Terraform
Ansible

Tools

Terraform
Ansible

Job description

Designworks Talent is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer to join our AI infrastructure group in Bellevue, WA. This hybrid role focuses on designing, deploying, and automating data center software that powers large-scale AI workloads, from server provisioning to GPU clusters and production inference.

Collaborate on infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes deployments, and performance optimization in a lean, AI-native environment with cross-functional teams.

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