Vultr is seeking to solve the problem of making high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world by hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering.
Requirements
- Expert-level experience in Rust (preferred) or other compiled languages for systems programming.
- Proven record architecting and scaling hypervisor-based infrastructure.
- Mastery of Linux internals, kernel debugging, and performance engineering.
- Strong background in networking automation (BGP, EVPN, OVS).
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) and infrastructure automation (Puppet/Ansible).
- Track record of setting technical strategy and mentoring senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Collaboration: Influence and align cross-functional teams (Networking, Storage, SRE, Product) on platform evolution.
- Mentorship: Coach engineers across all levels, raising the technical bar in systems programming and distributed systems.
- Technical Leadership: Architect and evolve hypervisor integrations (libvirt, QEMU, KVM) across thousands of hosts.
- Technical Leadership: Design scalable, automated networking systems built on BGP, EVPN, and OVS.
- Technical Leadership: Lead large-scale automation and provisioning frameworks with GitLab CI/CD and Puppet/Ansible.
- Technical Leadership: Champion observability and reliability practices with Grafana, Sentry, and SumoLogic.
- Innovation & Scale: Drive advanced performance tuning across CPU, memory, I/O, networking, and storage layers.
Other
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
