Lightning AI
Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer
$175K–$200K
New York, New York, United States +7 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
Remote
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
New York, New York, United States
Remote
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Lightning AI is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
About the job
Operates, troubleshoots, and scales large GPU and bare-metal infrastructure, resolving production issues and automating operations to improve reliability.
What you'll do
- Troubleshoot infrastructure across Linux, compute, networking, storage, and cluster orchestration; drive complex incidents through root cause analysis and resolution.
- Own infrastructure lifecycle workflows and build automation and internal tools to reduce repetitive work and scale operations.
- Improve reliability and operational processes with engineering and operations teams; participate in a distributed on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Linux-based production infrastructure at scale.
- Experience diagnosing complex issues across compute, networking, storage, and operating systems.
- Automation and scripting skills using Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools; experience with Kubernetes, Slurm, or other orchestration systems.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and telemetry systems, plus strong systems and networking fundamentals and ownership of production issues through resolution.
Nice to have
- Experience operating bare-metal, GPU, HPC, or other high-performance compute infrastructure.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA GPUs, DCGM, InfiniBand, RoCE/RDMA, NVLink, or high-speed data center networking.
Pay
$175,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, Kubernetes, Slurm, NVIDIA GPUs
AI focus
Operates infrastructure supporting AI systems, including large-scale GPU compute.
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