Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

About the role

Vultr is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Core Cloud Engineering team and help build the out-of-band (OOB) control plane that sits underneath every server in our fleet. This is the layer that makes a rack of bare metal behave like cloud.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain services that interact with server BMCs over IPMI and Redfish across a heterogeneous hardware fleet (Dell, Supermicro, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA platforms)
• Develop control-plane tooling for DPU provisioning and lifecycle management (NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando)
• Implement and harden serial-over-LAN, virtual media, and remote console workflows
• Write Rust services (and Go/PHP where appropriate) that are observable, well-tested, and safe to run unattended at fleet scale
• Contribute to internal SDKs and shared libraries used by other infrastructure teams
• Partner with datacenter operations and hardware vendors to debug firmware, BMC, and DPU behavior in production
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations for the OOB control plane
• Improve test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that lets us ship hardware automation safely
• Document interfaces, runbooks, and failure modes so the system stays operable as it grows

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services or systems software
• Production experience in at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++ -- and willingness to ramp on Rust as the primary language
• Solid working knowledge of Linux -- processes, networking, systemd, basic kernel concepts
• Comfortable with HTTP APIs, JSON, gRPC, and at least one of the common RPC/IPC patterns
• Familiarity with at least one of IPMI, Redfish, BMC tooling, PXE/iPXE, or bare metal provisioning -- or strong systems fundamentals and clear interest in learning it
• Comfortable reading vendor documentation, RFCs, and packet captures to figure out how something actually works
• Strong written communication -- can write a clear design doc, PR description, or incident postmortem

Compensation

$80,000 - $95,000 Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws. We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription