Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will build and scale a bare metal footprint from the ground up. This involves taking colocation sites from empty cages to production workloads and automating the full server lifecycle.

What you will do

• Take the first colocation site from empty cage to production workloads
• Scale the foundation to thousands of hosts
• Design server deployment from loading dock to production using netboot, imaging, and BMC-driven discovery
• Partner with network engineering on fleet needs
• Build the interface for the Kubernetes platform team to request capacity and see host health
• Own the fleet's source of truth for hardware, software, and physical environment
• Automate the full server lifecycle including burn-in, acceptance testing, remediation, firmware rollout, and RMA
• Build automation with guardrails on destructive actions
• Shape technical and operational direction of the bare metal platform
• Help hire the team that runs it

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colocation
• Experience with both physical hardware/colo providers and software-driven fleet management
• Strong Go or Python
• Experience designing systems with reconciliation loops and idempotent, failure-tolerant actions
• Deep Linux knowledge
• Solid networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Clear communication
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Willingness to push back on a plan

Nice to have

• Operating bare metal fleets at a scale of thousands of hosts
• Experience on a bare metal or datacenter build-out from its early days
• Running a hybrid environment, or moving workloads between public cloud and owned hardware
• DCIM/IPAM tools such as NetBox or Nautobot, or provisioning stacks such as Ironic/Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS
• Building reconcilers or state machines for physical infrastructure
• Hardware depth: component diagnostics, burn-in tooling, firmware, or Redfish and IPMI at fleet scale
• Building internal platforms or APIs used by other infrastructure teams
• Based near our colocation sites, or able to visit them regularly

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• 401K plans
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage
• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage
• FSAs and HSAs available
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area
• Home office stipends for remote Renders

Before you apply

• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship
• May sponsor existing visa transfers at Render's discretion

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform provides persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability.