Panthalassa

Panthalassa

Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

Portland, OR · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 14 days ago
PythonBashPowerShellTerraformAnsibleLinuxSiemens NXANSYSFEACAMFirewallResearchCollaborationProblem SolvingOrganizational SkillsRenewable Energy

About the role

  • 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 internal computing infrastructure and software applications are fundamental to the operation of our overall business and our technology systems in the field.

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
  • 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
  • Respond to incidents when they occur to maintain business continuity and security
  • Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols
  • 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
  • Ability to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages

Requirements

  • Ability to work in our Portland, OR headquarters
  • 5+ years of directly relevant experience
  • Extensive experience with modern Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration using automated tools and processes
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.
  • 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
  • 10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience
  • Comfort working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
  • Experience deploying and maintaining engineering-focused software (e.g. Siemens NX, Ansys, other CAD/CAM/Simulation/FEA software)
  • Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster administration and operation
  • Experience with vulnerability management, red-teaming, and other security analysis functions

Compensation

  • Salary and Benefits

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • We're all owners, and if we're successful, this equity will be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (the company pays 33% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial protection if you become disabled)
  • Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA

Company info

  • The open ocean is Earth's largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource.
  • 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.
  • 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.

This listing is sourced directly from Panthalassa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.