Principal Infrastructure Engineer

About the job Principal Infrastructure Engineer | US, Remote | Competitive Salary and Equity Package Overview A fast-growing AI infrastructure company is building a new cloud platform for large-scale accelerated computing environments. They are looking for a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and build of the bare-metal provisioning and infrastructure control-plane layer. You will make key architectural decisions, create repeatable automation and turn newly deployed hardware into secure, reliable, customer-ready capacity. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role. You will set technical direction while remaining close to the code, working across infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, security and reliability engineering. Why Join? Shape a greenfield cloud infrastructure platform. Own major architectural and build-versus-buy decisions. Work with large-scale GPU and accelerated-compute environments. Lead technically without moving into people management. Influence how new infrastructure sites are deployed and scaled. What You’ll Be Doing Lead the architecture of the infrastructure control plane and bare-metal platform. Build automated provisioning pipelines from hardware installation through production readiness. Create reusable infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible and software engineering practices. Design secure tenant isolation, platform observability and progressive deployment mechanisms. Integrate infrastructure services with Kubernetes, networking, security and reliability platforms. Define engineering standards and mentor experienced infrastructure engineers. Skills Required Essential 10+ years of experience building production infrastructure at scale. Strong Linux systems knowledge across networking, storage, performance and operating systems. Extensive experience with Terraform, Ansible and infrastructure automation. Production experience building or operating Kubernetes-based platforms. Proven experience setting technical direction for complex infrastructure or cloud platforms. Nice to Have Experience provisioning bare-metal infrastructure using Redfish, BMC automation or similar tooling. Experience with GPU, HPC or accelerated-compute infrastructure. Knowledge of DPUs, SmartNICs or hardware offload technologies. Understanding of high-performance networking, including RoCE or InfiniBand. Experience with Vault, secure boot, confidential computing or regulated cloud environments. Next Steps Interested? Apply directly or send me a message for a confidential discussion.