Principal Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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Denver, CO
Hybrid
206K-258K
Senior level
Cloud • Enterprise Web • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
DigitalOcean is the cloud of choice for developers, startups, and SMBs around the world.
The Role
The Principal Engineer will lead developments in Bare Metal GPU infrastructure, ensuring security and operational best practices while enhancing customer service capabilities and testing hardware performance.
Summary Generated by Built In

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here.  We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. 

As a Bare Metal GPU Infrastructure Engineer at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing. You’ll be joining a team of highly productive engineers who run and support the GPU Bare Metal service across multiple regions.  This role reports directly to the Sr Manager of GPU Compute within the IaaS organization. 

What You’ll Do:
  • Contribute to a rapidly growing Bare Metal GPU product within DO by providing security and operational best practices to a fleet of infrastructure servers across multiple regions.
  • Help design and implement further self-service capabilities for our customers by providing reliable and predictable API capabilities for upstack service teams.  
  • Engage in support escalations when necessary.  Capture trends and lead internal projects to improve the overall product experience. 
  • Continuously test our hardware platforms to identify performance regressions related to firmware, software or hardware issues.  

Qualifications include:

  • Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal linux systems at scale including building automation for firmware updates, bios config management, configuring PXE environments.  
  • Deep Linux systems experience including low level troubleshooting, developing and applying configuration management, security best practices and monitoring and alerting.  
  • Strong automation mindset.  Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as MaaS, Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet. 
  • Strong communication skills.  Your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge sharing sessions with operations teams.  


Bonus skills include:

  • Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD.  Experience in performing automated wide scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks. 
  • Network engineering experience with VyOS platforms.  
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
  • We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support your overall well-being, from one-time work from home stipend to wellness allowance to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is between $206,400.00 - $258,000.00 based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program. 
  • We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

*This is a remote role

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Top Skills

Amd
Ansible
Chef
Linux
Maas
Nvidia
Puppet
Salt
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The Company
HQ: New York , NY
900 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

Why Work With Us

Here you'll get to work with some of the smartest, most interesting people around; solving unique and complex technical challenges on a scale matched by few companies. If you get excited about stretching yourself in new ways, developing yourself to your fullest potential, with amazingly supportive friends and colleagues; we want to talk to you!

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