System Engineer, Infrastructure

Location: Redwood City, CA

Travel Required: No 

Job Classification Exempt FT

Job Functions: Engineering, Infrastructure

Reports to: Engineering Leadership

About Dexterity

At Dexterity, we believe robots can positively transform the world. Our breakthrough technology frees people to do the creative, inspiring, problem-solving jobs that humans do best by enabling robots to handle repetitive and physically difficult work.

We’re starting with warehouse automation, where the need for smarter, more resilient supply chains impacts millions of lives and businesses around the world. Dexterity's full-stack robotics systems pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill, awareness, and learning capabilities.  Our systems are software-driven, hardware-agnostic, and have already picked over 15 million goods in production.  And did we mention we’re customer-obsessed?  Every decision, large and small, is driven by one question – how can we empower our customers with robots to do more than they thought was possible?

Dexterity is one of the fastest growing and best funded startups in the robot manipulation space. Come join our team of robot-obsessed engineers and help make intelligent robots a reality.

About the Role

As our Systems Engineer in Dexterity, you will work closely with other IT/Infra teams to administer Dexterity compute and network for the systems deployed at various customer sites for all Dexterity product lines. Everyday you will be involved in commissioning servers/computes and also to monitor network performance, ensure network availability and reliability as well as provide support and troubleshooting to resolve issues. You will develop practices to help Dexterity measure, monitor and report on the state of key security metrics and compliance gaps across the company. To thrive in this role you will be an integral part of the  Infra team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available compute and network architectures that meet business objectives and SLAs.

As a System engineer, your responsibilities will include:

Help develop server automation platform to ensure timely delivery of compute resources

Linux/Ubuntu OS SysAdmin

Implement, maintain, and support our growing hardware and software network infrastructure. 

Administer various devices and services from website, routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, SD WAN, WiFi.

Maintain systems software (upgrades including OS, service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations).

Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning.

Select and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company’s security team i.e help with ISO and SOC2 compliance initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.

5+ years of experience in system engineering at scale.

Hands-on experience with system and network architecture and design.

Preferred Qualifications:

System Provisioning Experience: IPMI, PXE, iPXE, DHCP, Foreman, Netbox, Collins, RedHat Kickstart, Debian Preseed 

Hardware Experience: HPE, Dell, SuperMicro Servers Cloud Experience: GCP, AWS, Azure, terraform, cloud formation

Experience as a Network Systems Administrator

Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools Wireshark, sflow, et al

Understanding of enterprise network hardware Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, et al

Deep understanding of networking protocols DNS, IPSec, BGP, 802.11, QoS)

Software development skills in Python, Go, Bash (or other languages) a plus

CI/CD: Gitlab, Jenkins or similar a plus

Configuration Management Experience: CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt a plus

CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE certifications a plus

Benefits include:

Flexible time off

Lunch each day via Forkable

401(k) plan without company matching

PreTax FSA and Commuter Assistance through Navia 

Base pay is one element of our Total Rewards package which may also include comprehensive benefits and equity etc., depending on eligibility. The annual base salary range for this position is from $140,000 to $170,000. The actual base pay offered will be determined on factors such as years of relevant experience, skills, education etc. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.