Senior Software Engineer (vMetal)

vCluster Labs

16d • $130,000 - $180,000 • Remote

About The Position

As vCluster Labs' Senior Software Engineer (vMetal), you aren't just running servers; you are turning a rack of bare metal into a programmable platform. In this role, you will build the engineering work behind vMetal, the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware so our customers can spin up tenant clusters on top of it. You will sit at the rare intersection of out-of-band server management and modern Go services, and you will be one of the first engineers to help us grow this team.

Requirements

• Production Go fluency; ability to design clean services, APIs, and libraries.
• Shipped systems that drive servers via Redfish and IPMI in production, with an understanding of PXE boot end-to-end.
• Experience debugging BMC issues.
• Built or operated bare-metal-as-a-service offerings, an AI Cloud, or a hyperscaler bare metal team.
• Ability to design between server management and modern API design.
• Comfort with IPMI, iDRAC, and ILO consoles.
• Operator's instinct: thinking about failure modes, telemetry, and recoverability before shipping; experience being on-call for built systems.

Nice To Haves

• Comfort with Kubernetes internals, controllers, or operators.
• Production experience inside an AI Cloud, hyperscaler, or large platform team where bare metal scale was non-negotiable.
• Meaningful contributions to projects in the bare metal, provisioning, or Kubernetes ecosystem, such as Tinkerbell, Metal3, Cluster API, or Ironic.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture decisions, help drive the roadmap for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management, and hold a high bar for code review and design quality on the team.
• Build the Go services that turn raw hardware into APIs our customers can consume. Design and ship the systems that drive Redfish, IPMI, and PXE workflows in production, not glue scripts, real services with clean interfaces and solid tests.
• Own how servers get discovered, inventoried, provisioned, configured, and reclaimed. Eliminate manual intervention from the day-2 path and design for hardware that fails in surprising ways.
• Translate between traditional out-of-band server management and modern Kubernetes-native patterns. Contribute to where the abstractions live and how vMetal exposes hardware to tenant clusters cleanly.
• Partner with customer engineering and the broader platform team to debug, harden, and ship against real production workloads. Be on-call for the systems you build and treat reliability as a first-class deliverable.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Platinum-level Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents.
• Flexible Working Schedule.
• Workplace Flexibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed