Infrastructure Application & Automation Software Engineer

Location: Salt Lake Valley, Utah

Department: Product and Operations

What You’ll Do

• Build and own production-grade Python + shell automation frameworks (deployment, monitoring, self-healing, lifecycle).
• Treat infrastructure as code: design, deploy, and version-control everything with Ansible and Terraform across Debian and RHEL fleets.
• Be the go-to Linux admin for networking, storage, virtualization, and distributed systems.
• Wire up configuration management, observability, and orchestration so nothing breaks silently.
• Partner with DevOps, NetEng, and app teams to deliver reproducible, auditable environments.
• Ruthlessly automate yourself out of a job—then automate the automation.
• Jump into the data center ~1 day/month: rack servers, run cables, swap drives, high-five the robots.

Must-Have Skills

• Ansible + Terraform wizardry; playbooks and modules are your love language.
• Battle-tested on Debian and Red Hat in production.
• Write Python that scales: clean APIs, solid error handling, thorough tests.
• Linux internals muscle:
• • Bonding/VLANs, IP tables, BGP basics
  • RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe-oF
  • KVM, LXC, Docker, CRI-O
• Git-flow, CI/CD pipelines, chat-ops integrations.
• Happy in a rack with a torque screwdriver or SSH session.

Nice-to-Haves

• VMware vSphere or Kubernetes cluster wrangling
• AWS / GCP / Azure cost-optimization experience

Who Thrives Here

• You get giddy when a cron job retires.
• You sketch architectures on napkins, then make them real.
• You can dead-lift 60 lbs of server without spilling your coffee.

Location & Logistics

• This is a Hybrid-friendly role, with ~3 days/week in our Riverton office and ability to go into our Bluffdale data-center when needed.

Perks

• Equity in a rocket-ship storage startup
• Top-tier health, dental, 401(k) match
• Unlimited PTO (yes, really—take the ski days)

To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

The anticipated compensation range for this role is $150,000-175,000.  Actual compensation will be determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional/education experience, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations. In addition, Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life land disability. We also offer 401k plans and flexible time off. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

About the Company

About Hammerspace, Inc.

Hammerspace delivers a Global Data Environment that spans data centers, AWS, Azure, and Google cloud infrastructure. With origins in Linux, NFS, Open standards, Flash and deep file system and data management technology leadership, Hammerspace delivers the world’s first and only solution to connect global users with their data and applications on any existing data center infrastructure or AWS, Azure, and Google cloud services.