Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering
Vultr
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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. With 32 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Vultr Cares
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100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
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401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
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Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
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11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
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Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
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$500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
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Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
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Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
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Company paid Wellable subscription
Join Vultr
Vultr is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering to report to the Director of Core Cloud Engineering. This role is for engineers who combine deep technical mastery with strategic influence, setting the direction for Core Cloud and leading system designs at global scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaboration: Influence and align cross-functional teams (Networking, Storage, SRE, Product) on platform evolution.
- Mentorship: Coach engineers across all levels, raising the technical bar in systems programming and distributed systems.
- 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.
- Champion observability and reliability practices with Grafana, Sentry, and SumoLogic.
- Innovation & Scale: Drive advanced performance tuning across CPU, memory, I/O, networking, and storage layers.
Qualifications
- Expert-level experience in Rust (preferred) or other compiled languages for systems programming.
- Proven record architecting and scaling hypervisor-based infrastructure.
- Mastery of Linux internals, kernel debugging, and performance engineering.
- Strong background in networking automation (BGP, EVPN, OVS).
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) and infrastructure automation (Puppet/Ansible).
- Track record of setting technical strategy and mentoring senior engineers.
Compensation
$135,000 - $155,000
This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.
Inclusion & Privacy
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Summary
Lead system design, architecture, and automation for cloud infrastructure at scale.
Job title
Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering
Experience level
expert level
Industry
cloud infrastructure
Location requirements
remote work allowed, global candidates welcome
Salary
135000-155000
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Unknown location