Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 32 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Why Vultr
Simply put, Vultr is committed to providing businesses worldwide with the best price-to-performance of any cloud computing platform. Our global reach of data centers and strategic new partnerships provide the foundation to maximize the impact of our existing services, new product improvements, and releases, which in turn, is a catalyst for your own success. Vultr is taking flight, and this is your opportunity to leave your mark on the future of Cloud Infrastructure!
Vultr Cares
- Excellent Medical Benefits w/ 100% company paid premiums for employee only plan + 100% company paid dental vision premiums
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 first year remote office setup + $400 each following year for new equipment
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription
Join Vultr
Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join the Platform Services team, reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver passionate about developer experience, automation, and scalable infrastructure. This is a highly visible role supporting internal engineering productivity through CI/CD optimization, infrastructure automation, and development environment enablement. This is your opportunity to shape the future of Vultr’s platform stack — designing the systems that power continuous delivery, infrastructure-as-code, and internal developer tooling.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD Ownership: Design, implement, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines that power all internal software delivery.
- Infrastructure Automation: Automate infrastructure deployments using Terraform and Puppet or Kubernetes to deliver consistent, repeatable environments.
- Developer Experience: Enhance internal development environments and tooling to streamline onboarding and local testing workflows.
- Systems Integration: Collaborate with various Engineering teams to ensure observability, reliability, and automation are built into every delivery pipeline.
- Configuration Management: Contribute to Puppet manifests, Helm charts and Terraform modules for core platform systems.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with developers, QA Engineering, and engineering teams to enable reliable, efficient deployments.
- Documentation: Author clear, maintainable documentation for CI/CD workflows, automation scripts, and infrastructure processes.
Qualifications
- Experience with CI/CD systems, ideally GitLab, including pipeline templating, runners, and integrations.
- Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code, using Terraform and configuration management tools (Puppet and/or Ansible).
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Python, PHP, Bash, or similar languages.
- Hands-on experience with Linux environments, especially Debian-based distributions.
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of version control and branching strategies in Git-based workflows.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a focus on performance and reliability.
- Effective communication and documentation skills to support collaboration across teams.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, automation, and DevOps best practices.
Compensation
$100,000 - $130,000
Inclusion Privacy
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.
We also take your privacy seriously. We handle personal information responsibly and follow applicable laws, including U.S. privacy rules and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Your data is used only for legitimate business purposes and is protected with proper security measures.
Where allowed by law, applicants may request details about the data we collect, access or delete their information, withdraw consent for its use, and opt out of nonessential communications. For more details, please see our Privacy Policy.
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