Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Accountabilities

• • 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.