Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. Panthalassa is harnessing that resource to generate the cheapest energy on the planet. Our mission is to provide abundant and affordable clean energy for everyone.

Founded in 2016 and based in the Pacific Northwest, our team comes from diverse backgrounds in aerospace, naval architecture, marine operations, hardware, software, and research.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively architect, build, and operate internal and external-facing computing infrastructure in on-premise datacenter and cloud-hosted environments
• Design and implement automated tools and processes for hosting commodity and internally-developed software applications reliably, performantly, and securely
• Develop infrastructure-as-code software to support and enable the operation of platform and application workloads
• Deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade and migrate business applications to ensure reliable and scalable performance that meets the needs of our users
• Implement agreed-upon solutions, including deploying new servers, network equipment, applications, end-user devices, and other equipment
• Manage and administer third-party SaaS applications used by the company
• Monitor systems, applications and networks to identify problems and threats
• Respond to incidents when they occur to maintain business continuity and security
• Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols

Qualifications

• Ability to work in our Portland, OR headquarters
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience
• Extensive experience with modern Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration using automated tools and processes
• Infrastructure automation with configuration management and IaC tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Experience building on-premise or cloud-hosted Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and virtualized/containerized application hosting platforms
• Experience designing, building, and improving networks, including experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high-availability architecture
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.
• Able to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages
• Able to think independently about potential solutions – including the novel or uncommon – rather than implementing industry standards if they will not achieve the desired outcome

Additional Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Travel to test sites and manufacturing locations as needed
• Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical need; we expect a lot of each other, but we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including unlimited PTO and flexible working hours
• Location: Our offices, lab, and machine shop are located in Portland, Oregon. This position requires consistent on-site work.

Schedule

This position requires consistent on-site work.

Pay

If hired for this role, you will receive:

• Cash compensation of $150,000 – $200,000
• Equity in the company. We’re all owners, and if we’re successful, this equity will be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family including:
• Unlimited paid time off
• Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (the company pays 33% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
• Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial protection if you become disabled)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to help facilitate your move to Portland if needed