Job Information
DomainTools Principal Systems Engineer - Platform Infrastructure in Seattle, Washington
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DomainTools is looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to lead our Platform Infrastructure team within Technical Operations. Come build the bare-metal infrastructure enabling delivery of our security products to almost half of the Fortune 100.
Platform Infrastructure is a small group of engineers focused on delivering the server- and low-level service building blocks that power the engineering platform for our on-premise hybrid cloud environment. This includes physical hosts, bootstrap services, Kubernetes cluster deployment and operations, and datacenter management. Our goal is to provide our internal customers with self-service access to datacenter infrastructure in simple, fully-automated ways that scales elegantly to power existing and future services as they move into our development platform. We partner closely with the Platform Engineering and Technical Operations teams.
Location: Remote within US
Compensation: $145,000-$170,000 Base +15% Annual Performance Bonus
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Requirements
Job Responsibilities:
- Build and operate the tools and processes that enable fully-automated bare-metal Linux-based host provisioning across our various colocation environments
- Design, build, and help operate highly-available Kubernetes-based infrastructure that powers our hybrid cloud platform, in close partnership with the Platform team
- Collaborate with internal customers to build self-service interfaces on our Platform that simplify and accelerate service delivery on bare metal hosts
- Instrument and optimize system and cluster performance including power consumption, network performance, and physical rack design
- Forecast and plan capacity increases to ensure resource availability for engineering teams while meeting budget targets
- Provide thought leadership on DevOps and Platform Engineering-centric system and process design, giving constructive input to engineers and leaders on proposals and best practices
- Lead by showing: mentor and help develop engineers on sister teams in a highly demonstrative and collaborative way
Participate in an on-call rotation with fellow team members
Key Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience in Linux systems engineering roles supporting bare metal servers, virtualization, and container platforms
- Experience building and managing infrastructure in both public cloud and physical data center environments using IaC tools
- Experience automating the Linux boot environment (PXE, TFTP, Kickstart)
- Proven ability to automate the right things in the simplest way possible (scripts, config management tools, CI pipelines, etc.)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and storage technologies
- Experience building and managing Kubernetes clusters
- Ability to communicate well and publish docs that are easily understood by stakeholders
- Experience supporting customer-facing SaaS products
- Willing to dive in and own problems that are new, ambiguous, or complex
- Proven ability to prioritize where improvements are most needed; sees the forest for the trees
High team standards around communication, giving and receiving feedback, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
Relevant Technologies:
Compute: CentOS/Rocky Linux, Kubernetes, Rancher RKE2
Storage: Longhorn, MinIO, Linux LVM and filesystems
Languages: Bash, Python
Automation Tools: Ansible, Terraform, GitLab, Hashicorp Vault/Consul
Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Glacier)
Monitoring/metrics: Prometheus, Icinga/Nagios, Graphite, Grafana, CollectD
Logging: ELK/OpenSearch, Syslog, Journald
Load Balancing: Nginx, H
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