Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer — HPC, Cloud & Security

Pacific Biosciences; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, CA, is seeking a Staff Engineer for IT Infrastructure to design, operate, secure, and evolve our global infrastructure supporting research, engineering, and enterprise environments.

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on implementation while shaping modernization strategy, security practices, and observability across Linux, HPC, cloud, networking, storage, and automation for a broad set of internal users.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, administering, and supporting production infrastructure at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience operating public-cloud infrastructure and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and support Enterprise Linux environments across physical, virtual, cloud, and HPC infrastructure.
• Manage system provisioning, configuration, patching, lifecycle, security hardening, capacity, performance, and automation.
• Administer and evolve HPC and research-computing environments supporting scientific and engineering workloads.
• Support enterprise workload scheduling, CPU/GPU compute, high-performance networking, and large-scale storage integration.
• Partner with researchers and engineers to understand workload requirements, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve compute performance and user experience.

Skills

Enterprise-scale infra

Enterprise Linux

HPC experience

Cloud infra

Automation & scripting

Security fundamentals

Job description

Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, CA, is seeking a Staff Engineer for IT Infrastructure to design, operate, secure, and evolve our global infrastructure supporting research, engineering, and enterprise environments.

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on implementation while shaping modernization strategy, security practices, and observability across Linux, HPC, cloud, networking, storage, and automation for a broad set of internal users.