# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

> Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-21

**Salary:** USD 275,000–350,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding engineer and technical lead for a new infrastructure group, reporting closely to senior technical leadership. Take charge of physical server deployments and their day-to-day operation, from vendor relationships through live production support. Write supporting software step by step as operational needs become clear.

What you'll do

\- Lead the infrastructure group as its first engineer and technical owner.

\- Work with colocation providers and hardware suppliers, including acceptance checks on new equipment.

\- Configure operating systems and drivers, and manage secure server access.

\- Stand up, automate, troubleshoot and run a live container orchestration cluster.

\- Track performance, maintain systems, write documentation and handle incidents.

\- Develop internal tooling over time covering areas such as machine setup, health monitoring, APIs, job scheduling and network and storage layers.

\- Check and validate every piece of code, configuration and live system, including work drafted with AI tools.

\- Travel to datacenters when deployment and operational work calls for it.

\- Help build and lead the team as it grows.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- A bachelor's degree.

\- Availability to work on-site full-time in San Francisco.

\- Strong practical experience running production Kubernetes clusters, from setup through ongoing operation.

\- A track record of taking accelerated-compute hardware from first installation to steady production use.

\- Experience deploying and running physical server infrastructure, working with datacenters, colocation sites or hardware vendors.

\- Experience writing production-grade software in a low-level language such as Go or Rust.

\- Demonstrated relevant work and sound practical judgment.

\- Willingness to provide a separate writing sample.

Bonus points

\- Prior experience mentoring, hiring or leading engineers.

\- Background in Linux administration and site reliability work, including services, patching and diagnostics.

\- Experience running large server fleets.

\- Familiarity with job schedulers, environment management and configuration management tools.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 275,000 to 350,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Performance bonus

\- Relocation support

Location and work model

\- San Francisco, CA, United States

\- On-site

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/1AA684085D/apply)

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