Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +31 more states – Remote

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💵 $75k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Vultr

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $329M Debt Financing - Vultr on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Hardware

Vultr is a global cloud infrastructure provider offering on-demand virtual machines, bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated instances, managed databases, object and block storage, Kubernetes, and networking services. The platform emphasizes AI and HPC workloads with a broad selection of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, fast networking, and 32+ data center regions, plus a marketplace of deployable apps and developer-friendly APIs. Vultr targets developers and businesses seeking affordable, scalable, and compliant cloud compute and storage alternatives to hyperscalers.

📋 Description

• Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times • Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit • Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols • Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency • Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products • Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management • Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation • Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure automation • Hands-on experience with bare metal server provisioning, including IPMI/BMC, PXE boot, and firmware management • Strong Linux systems engineering skills, deep understanding of the boot process, initramfs, kernel command line, and device configuration • Proficiency in PHP for backend service development in a LAMP environment • Nice to have proficiency in Rust • Experience using Redfish (or similar tools) • Experience building or maintaining instance metadata services or cloud-init integrations • Familiarity with automated configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent) • Ability to debug hardware and software issues across the full stack, from BMC firmware to application layer, and strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration in a remote environment

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans. • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan • Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year • $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month • Company paid Wellable subscription