Senior GPU InfraOps Engineer — Hybrid

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Equity/RSUs

401(k) matching

Pension contributions

Unlimited PTO

Winter Break

Parental Leave

Learning & Development

Wellness Stipend

Sabbatical

Flexible Work

Office Meals

Job summary

Lightning AI is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer to operate and scale the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest GPU fleets. The role sits at the heart of production reliability across Linux, bare-metal servers, GPUs, networking, storage, provisioning, and cluster orchestration.

You will own workflows from provisioning to decommissioning, build automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to resolve issues in a fast-growing environment, including

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Linux-based production infrastructure at scale.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues across compute, networking, storage, and operating systems.
• Strong automation and scripting skills using Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Slurm, or other cluster and workload orchestration systems.
• Experience using monitoring, observability, and telemetry systems to diagnose and troubleshoot production infrastructure.
• Strong systems and networking fundamentals, with a track record of owning production issues through resolution.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and collaborating across engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Operate and troubleshoot large-scale GPU and bare-metal infrastructure across Linux, compute, networking, storage, and cluster orchestration.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex infrastructure issues, driving problems from initial investigation through resolution and root cause analysis.
• Own operational workflows across the infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, validation, maintenance, remediation, and decommissioning.
• Build automation and internal tooling that eliminates repetitive operational work and enables the infrastructure fleet to scale efficiently.
• Identify recurring failure modes and partner with Infrastructure Engineering to build more reliable, repeatable, and automated systems.
• Improve provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational processes across a rapidly growing infrastructure footprint.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Customer Experience, and Platform Engineering to resolve cross-team issues.
• Participate in a distributed primary/secondary on-call rotation supporting production infrastructure.

Skills

Linux

Automation

Python

Go

Bash

Ansible

Kubernetes

Slurm

Monitoring

Networking

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

GitOps

Job description

Lightning AI is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer to operate and scale the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest GPU fleets. The role sits at the heart of production reliability across Linux, bare-metal servers, GPUs, networking, storage, provisioning, and cluster orchestration.

You will own workflows from provisioning to decommissioning, build automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to resolve issues in a fast-growing environment, including