The opportunity
Most infrastructure engineers never get to build a cloud from the metal up. At Render, you will.
What you'll do
Take our first colocation site from empty cage to production workloads, then: scale what you build as we grow to more sites and thousands of hosts
Design how servers go from the loading dock to production with minimal human: touch: netboot, imaging, BMC-driven discovery, and host identity
Partner with network engineering on what the fleet needs from the network,: from out-of-band management to production connectivity
Build the interface our Kubernetes platform team uses to request capacity,: see host health, and coordinate maintenance, so consuming bare metal feels as easy as consuming cloud
Own the fleet's source of truth for hardware, software, and the physical environment
Automate the full server lifecycle, from burn-in and acceptance testing: through remediation, staged firmware rollout, and RMA
What they're looking for
- Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colocation
- Both sides of the work: time with physical hardware and colo providers, and modern, software-driven fleet management
- Strong Go or Python, and experience designing systems with reconciliation: loops and idempotent, failure-tolerant actions
- Depth below the abstraction: you know what your tools are doing under the hood and can debug them when they fail
- Experience operating through real failures, such as bad hardware batches,: flapping BMCs, or a rollout you had to halt
- Deep Linux knowledge and solid networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP)
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, enough to design the interface between the: fleet and the clusters that run on it
- Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and the willingness to push back: on a plan when something doesn't add up
