Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

About the Company

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.

About the Job

We are developing technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world’s oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. Building this technology requires collaboration across teams and tools. Our internal computing infrastructure and software applications are fundamental to the operation of our overall business and our technology systems in the field.

You will take shared responsibility for building and operating our internal computing infrastructure platforms and the many business-critical applications that run upon them. The ideal candidate will understand performance, availability, and security requirements for the company’s infrastructure, networks, and applications. You will architect and develop technology solutions to business problems and directly implement and operate them. You should have extensive experience with Windows and Linux systems administration, operating system configuration management, virtualized/cloud-hosted/containerized infrastructure, IP networking, and infrastructure security. You should be able to employ a first-principles, fundamental logic-based approach to problem solving while building highly-secured, performant and reliable systems.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation, and we are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.

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

Required 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.
• Ability to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages
• Ability to think independently about potential solutions – including the novel or uncommon – rather than implementing industry standards if they will not achieve the desired outcome

Desired Qualifications

• 10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience
• Comfort working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appro