Material

Infrastructure Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote, United States Remote IT Senior Posted May 13, 2026
Location Remote, United States
Workplace Remote
Seniority Senior
Category IT
IT Category DevOps / SRE
Language English
Posted May 13, 2026
Last verified June 10, 2026
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Infrastructure Engineer at Material: Remote, United States; Senior; IT; DevOps / SRE. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.

  • Location and workplace: Remote, United States
  • Role classification: IT, DevOps / SRE, Senior
  • Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-10.
  • Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.

About the role

Own the platform that powers our accelerator cloud. Your scope spans bare-metal provisioning, multi-tenant Kubernetes, SLURM scheduling, control planes, and the automation and observability that keep thousands of compute nodes running as a single production system.

What you'll do

  • Build the control plane and APIs that unify our compute fleet

  • Own provisioning and lifecycle from rack bring-up to node retirement

  • Operate the scheduling layer for training and inference workloads

  • Architect multi-tenancy: isolation, quota, fairness, and accounting

  • Build automation that eliminates manual operations

  • Drive reliability, observability, and incident response across the fleet

What you'll need

  • BS in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering

  • Advanced software engineering skills: Rust, Go, or Python

  • Deep understanding of Linux, storage, and distributed systems

  • Experience with workload schedulers: SLURM, Kubernetes scheduling, or equivalent

  • Expertise with automation tooling: Terraform, Ansible, Helm

  • Experience architecting multi-tenant systems

  • Production SRE experience: on-call, incident response, observability

What we offer

  • Top-tier compensation structured to recognize and retain the best talent

  • Meaningful equity

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

  • Parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys

  • Flexible PTO

  • Paid Holidays

  • Relocation support

 

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.