Remote Principal Systems Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Principal Systems Engineer role at DomainTools. The role involves leading the Platform Infrastructure team within Technical Operations and building infrastructure for security products. The job is remote within the US, with a base salary of $145,000-$170,000 plus a 15% annual performance bonus.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the tools and processes that enable fully-automated bare-metal Linux-based host provisioning across 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

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
• 401k retirement plan with company matching
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits