Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Platform Engineer, Infrastructure based in United States.

This is an infrastructure engineering role focused on building and operating the foundation behind a global, high-performance bare-metal fleet.
You’ll automate server provisioning, configuration, deployment, security, and lifecycle management across physical infrastructure.
The role combines hands-on systems engineering with platform tooling, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and reliability.
You’ll help make infrastructure faster to provision, safer to operate, more cost-efficient, and easier for distributed engineering teams to manage.
You’ll work closely with security and engineering teams on access controls, secrets management, auditability, and operational resilience.
As an intermediate-level position, it offers significant ownership and room to grow while working on infrastructure serving high-scale applications.
Crypto or blockchain experience is not required; strong infrastructure fundamentals and a willingness to learn are valued most.

• Automate the complete server lifecycle, including provisioning, operating-system installation, configuration, hardware validation, and decommissioning.

• Build and maintain internal tooling that enables engineers to interact with and manage the infrastructure fleet without relying on manual configuration.

• Standardize software build and deployment processes through CI pipelines, artifact management, deployment tooling, and reliable rollback mechanisms.

• Execute infrastructure security initiatives alongside security leadership, including SSO-integrated access, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege controls, and audit trails.

• Analyze infrastructure costs, including workload costs, provider comparisons, and hardware refresh requirements, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.

• Improve monitoring and observability across owned infrastructure and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

• Create clear operational documentation and runbooks that enable a distributed engineering organization to operate and troubleshoot the systems effectively.

• Identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and continuously improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and efficiency.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or a closely related discipline.

• Hands-on experience managing bare-metal infrastructure, including physical server provisioning, PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs, colocation or dedicated-server environments, and hardware-versus-software troubleshooting.

• Strong Linux fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

• Practical experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, or Nix.

• Solid scripting or programming capabilities in Python, Go, Bash, or a comparable language.

• Strong security mindset, with an understanding of access controls, blast-radius reduction, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.

• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with the ability to follow problems through to resolution and proactively automate repetitive processes.

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, low-ego, direct, and highly autonomous engineering environment.

• Experience with Rust, high-performance networking, or low-latency systems is an asset.

• Familiarity with ClickHouse, Prometheus, or Grafana is a plus.

• Experience working for a high-scale B2B infrastructure company is advantageous.

• Blockchain or cryptocurrency experience is not required; willingness to learn the underlying technologies is sufficient.

Benefits

• Fully remote, distributed work environment with flexibility to work where you are most effective.

• Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity.

• Generous vacation allowance.

• Wellness budget and support for employee well-being.

• Learning and professional development support.

• Opportunities to work on high-impact infrastructure supporting applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem.

• Significant ownership of critical infrastructure initiatives and opportunities to influence architecture and technical direction.

• Exposure to high-performance distributed infrastructure, bare-metal systems, networking, security, and large-scale backend services.

• Collaborative environment with experienced engineers from leading technology and infrastructure organizations.

• Opportunity to grow into greater technical and organizational responsibility as the platform scales.