Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

Vultr

Salary range

$135,000–$155,000/year

Benefits

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Networking, Storage, SRE, Product) on platform evolution.
  • Coach engineers across all levels, raising the technical bar in systems programming and distributed systems.
  • Champion observability and reliability practices with Grafana, Sentry, and SumoLogic.

Technical Leadership:

  • Architect and evolve hypervisor integrations (libvirt, QEMU, KVM) across thousands of hosts.
  • Design scalable, automated networking systems built on BGP, EVPN, and OVS.
  • Lead large-scale automation and provisioning frameworks with GitLab CI/CD and Puppet/Ansible.

Innovation & Scale:

  • Drive advanced performance tuning across CPU, memory, I/O, networking, and storage layers.
  • Proven record architecting and scaling hypervisor-based infrastructure.
  • Mastery of Linux internals, kernel debugging, and performance engineering.

About Vultr

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world.

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