Principal Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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. 

• 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.  

• 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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