KoBold Metals is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to partner with exploration and engineering teams. You'll build reliable, scalable infrastructure that transforms data and models into real-world exploration insights, improve observability, streamline MLOps workflows, and maintain shared tools to enable faster experimentation and collaboration.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and operate scalable and reliable compute infrastructure to support critical services.
- Work closely with engineering teams to embed observability, reliability, and security throughout the software development process.
- Create and maintain automation for monitoring, deployments, and incident response.
- Lead or support capacity planning, performance reviews, and system tuning.
- Join the on-call rotation and take part in incident response, troubleshooting, and resolution.
- Develop and refine monitoring and alerting to catch issues early and reduce downtime.
- Establish and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
- Regularly review and improve tools and processes to strengthen system visibility and reliability.
- Investigate points of fragility in distributed systems and understand how complex systems behave under stress.
- Continually learn about mineral exploration through reading, discussions, team rotations, and time in the field with geologists.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
- Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java or JavaScript/Node.js).
- Experience with IaC tools like Terraform and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Experience operating or administering JupyterHub in a multi-user environment.
- Understanding of MLOps workflows, including model training, deployment, and related tooling.
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and implement effective solutions.
- Proven ability to thrive in dynamic and evolving environments, effectively navigating uncertainty and incomplete information.
- Proven ability to grow expertise, influence & educate others.
- Comfortable making informed decisions with limited data, adapting quickly to new circumstances, and maintaining focus on strategic objectives.
- Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain.
- Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not infrastructure engineers.
- Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities.
- Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/Node.js
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, JupyterHub
Team & Environment
You will partner with exploration and engineering teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $170,000 - $220,000
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the United States and Canada.
KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
