Staff Infrastructure Engineer (R6109)
San Mateo · USD 150,000-230,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 150,000-230,000 / year
About the role
- The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will serve as a senior technical resource on the Cloud & Infrastructure team, designing and implementing solutions for complex infrastructure requirements.
- This role involves engineering and operating enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure across data centers, colocation facilities, and hybrid cloud environments.
- The position requires leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the resiliency and performance of mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, administer, and optimize Active Directory and core identity infrastructure.
- Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.
- Perform capacity planning and infrastructure sizing for new workloads, engineering environments, and site expansions.
- Design and continuously improve backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure resiliency.
- Implement monitoring and observability for infrastructure availability, capacity, performance, and reliability.
- Develop infrastructure automation and repeatable deployment patterns using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Support integration between on-premises infrastructure and AWS/Azure.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure incidents and serve as an escalation point for critical production issues.
- Lead infrastructure projects and technical initiatives from design through implementation.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance while remaining hands-on with infrastructure engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production environments.
- Advanced experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory.
- Strong experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms.
- Strong Windows Server administration experience and working proficiency with Linux systems.
- Experience designing and implementing backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises environments and AWS and/or Azure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, troubleshoot ambiguous problems, and mentor other engineers.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting infrastructure in high-availability, mission-critical, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or engineering environments.
- Deep experience with one or more enterprise storage and data protection ecosystems.
- Experience designing infrastructure across multiple offices, engineering sites, laboratories, and data center or colocation environments.
- Experience with Kubernetes or containerized workloads.
- Experience supporting GPU compute, high-performance computing, or other accelerated engineering workloads.
- Experience with VDI platforms such as VMware Horizon, Citrix, or Azure Virtual Desktop.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure networking fundamentals.
- Experience operating in security-conscious or regulated environments aligned with frameworks such as NIST or CMMC.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits (for full-time regular employees)
- Temporary benefits package (for temporary employees after 60 days)
Skills
- Active Directory
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- KVM
- NetApp
- Pure Storage
- Dell EMC
- Windows Server
- RHEL
- Ubuntu
- Terraform
- Ansible
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- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash
