System Engineer 5 - 3053904

Job#: 3053904

Job Description:

System Engineer 5 Location: REDMOND, Washington (On-site) Role Overview A research engineering team is seeking a DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to join their group focused on building a new micro-VM platform optimized for agentic workloads. This role involves owning the infrastructure stack that supports the team, including provisioning compute environments, maintaining benchmarking frameworks, and ensuring a robust CI/CD pipeline. The position operates at the intersection of systems research and product engineering, contributing to how cloud infrastructure runs AI workloads at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and manage multi-platform cloud compute environments, automating configuration to reduce setup overhead.
• Coordinate host access and isolation across team workloads while maintaining cloud subscriptions in a compliant and cost-efficient manner.
• Improve the development environment and agentic engineering processes.
• Own and extend the benchmarking harness for VM lifecycle measurements, tracking metrics such as boot latency, memory footprint, and throughput.
• Design experiments for single-instance and concurrent-burst scenarios to surface regressions and validate improvements.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across all project repositories, automating build, test, and validation workflows.
• Manage binary delivery channels for kernel, VM, and agent artifacts to accelerate developer iteration loops.

Required Qualifications Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering is required. Experience: 10+ years of relevant systems or infrastructure engineering experience is required. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a strong open-source contributor with a notable contribution history.
• A strong GitHub track record that demonstrates technical work.
• Previous experience at a major technology company.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.