System Engineer 5

ManpowerGroup; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

401(k), Plus Match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

Engineering Infrastructure & Systems Research seeks a System Engineer 5 to join a high-impact team in Redmond, WA. The role centers on building a micro-VM platform for low-latency workloads, with strong emphasis on automation, benchmarking, and reproducible experiments.

The ideal candidate has solid Linux fundamentals, a history of CI/CD and automation, and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues that align with a research engineering group transitioning to production readiness.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Linux systems administration and OS-level troubleshooting experience.
• 3+ years of CI/CD, test infrastructure, and engineering automation experience.
• 3+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience, including virtualization, cloud compute environments, and scripting.
• Strong open-source/GitHub track record demonstrating technical work and measurable contributions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (required).

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage multi-platform cloud compute environments to support engineering and testing needs.
• Automate environment configuration to reduce setup overhead and keep infrastructure friction low.
• Own benchmarking infrastructure for VM lifecycle measurements, including boot latency, snapshot/restore, teardown, memory footprint, and throughput.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated build/test/validation workflows across project repositories.
• Investigate performance or test regressions and improve validation reliability through reproducible experiments.

Skills

Linux admin

CI/CD automation

Automation scripting

Open-source contributions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Our client, Engineering Infrastructure & Systems Research is seeking a System Engineer 5 to join their team. As a System Engineer 5, you will be part of the Applications Dev & Test organization supporting a small, high-impact research engineering team building a new micro-VM platform optimized for low-latency, high-density agentic workloads. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux fundamentals, a track record of CI/CD and automation, and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues which will align successfully in the organization.

Job Title:

System Engineer 5

Location:

Redmond, WA (Onsite)

Pay Range:

$73.27 - $78.92

What's the Job?

• Provision and manage multi-platform cloud compute environments to support engineering and testing needs.

• Automate environment configuration to reduce setup overhead and keep infrastructure friction low.

• Own benchmarking infrastructure for VM lifecycle measurements, including boot latency, snapshot/restore, teardown, memory footprint, and throughput.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated build/test/validation workflows across project repositories.

• Investigate performance or test regressions and improve validation reliability through reproducible experiments.

What's Needed?

• 3+ years of Linux systems administration and OS-level troubleshooting experience.

• 3+ years of CI/CD, test infrastructure, and engineering automation experience.

• 3+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience, including virtualization, cloud compute environments, and scripting.

• Strong open-source/GitHub track record demonstrating technical work and measurable contributions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (required).

What's in it for me?

• Meaningful ownership of infrastructure that directly unblocks engineering velocity and validation confidence.

• Opportunity to work closely with a senior research engineering team transitioning from prototype to production hardening.

• Hands-on impact on benchmarking and CI/CD systems that support low-latency, high-density agentic workloads.

• Clear success criteria focused on stable pipelines, reproducible benchmarking, and reduced manual environment setup.

• A role on the critical path where your systems work shapes outcomes across multiple product lines.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

• Dental Plan

• Vision Plan

• Health Savings Account

• Health Flexible Spending Account

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Business Travel Insurance

• 401(k), Plus Match

• Weekly Pay

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.