Senior Data Center Operations and Maintenance Engineer
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · Bellevue
- Visa
- Not offered
Not stated in the posting: salary.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Senior Operations & Maintenance Engineer
Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA (downtown)
Titles: Senior, Staff and Principal (multiple roles available)
Support Operations & Maintenance for a Next-Generation AI Infrastructure Firm
About the Opportunity
Designworks Talent's standard text
A well-funded, rapidly growing AI infrastructure company is building a next-generation cloud platform designed to power the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence. The organization is developing a comprehensive AI infrastructure, platform, and services portfolio that supports the full spectrum of AI workloads—including large-scale compute, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and emerging agentic AI applications.
Backed by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization. Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging automation and modern tooling to operate world-class infrastructure at scale.
As AI data centers come online across North America, the company is building its Operations & Maintenance organization. We're seeking experienced operational team members who have built and scaled production infrastructure organizations and can establish the people, processes, tooling, and operational discipline required to deliver exceptional reliability and customer experience.
The Opportunity
This is an individual contributor role responsible for helping to build and scale the Operations & Maintenance function supporting mission-critical AI infrastructure. The focus of these roles will be to support post-launch monitoring, incident response, reliability and provide exceptional customer support.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Networking, Hardware, and Operations and Maintenance leadership to create a highly reliable, scalable operating system capable of supporting one of the industry's most advanced AI infrastructure platforms.
What You'll Do
- Monitor live data center and GPU infrastructure for performance, capacity, and reliability issues.
- Lead or support incident response for production issues, driving toward fast, effective resolution.
- Collaborate with the engineering teams to make sure monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling are first class and make issues are caught before they impact customers.
- Partner with hardware, networking, orchestration, and infrastructure teams to resolve root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Contribute to runbooks, on-call practices, and operational maturity as the platform scales.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in a data center operations, site reliability, or infrastructure operations role, ideally supporting GPU or large-scale compute environments.
- Strong incident response and troubleshooting skills across hardware, networking, and systems layers.
- Comfortable working in an early-stage environment where processes and tooling are still being established.
- Experience in multiple technical environments is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with on-call/incident-management tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie) and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Background supporting GPU cluster or data center operations post-launch.
Compensation
- Competitive base pay for Bellevue market
- Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and long term incentives. These awards are allocated based on individual performance
- U.S. based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, employees also receive per calendar year, paid holidays.
Location
- Hybrid role based in the Bellevue, WA area.
- Approximately three days per week in the office.
- U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not currently available.
Why Join?
- Build the Operations & Maintenance organization, processes, tooling and systems from its earliest stages.
- Influence the strategy, processes, tooling, and culture supporting next-generation AI infrastructure.
- Work alongside experienced engineers and engineering leaders solving some of the industry's most complex infrastructure challenges.
- Join a company combining startup agility with substantial long-term investment and stability.
- Play a foundational role in scaling the infrastructure powering tomorrow's AI applications.
What this role asks for
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Read against Designworks Talent's other open postings on this site.
The team: AI Infrastructure
This role is one of 31 open in AI Infrastructure. 30 were posted in the last 30 days, including 4 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (13 of 31), Machine Learning (12 of 31), Datadog (7 of 31), Grafana (7 of 31), Linux (7 of 31), PagerDuty (7 of 31), Prometheus (7 of 31)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Technical Program Leader - AI Infrastructure posted Oct 7
- Staff Senior Virtualization & Orchestration Engineer posted Oct 7
- Senior Virtualization & Orchestration Engineer posted Oct 7
- Virtualization & Orchestration Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff Inference Engineer posted Oct 7
- Senior Inference Engineer posted Oct 7
- Principal Hardware Design Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff Hardware Design Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer posted Oct 7
- Senior GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer posted Oct 7
- GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer posted Oct 7
- Data Center Operations and Maintenance Senior Director posted Oct 7
- Data Center Operations and Maintenance Director posted Oct 7
- Data Center Operations and Maintenance Manager posted Oct 7
- VP, Data Center Operations and Maintenance posted Oct 7
- Staff Principal Data Center Operations and Maintenance Engineer posted Oct 7
- Principal Data Center Operations and Maintenance Engineer posted Oct 7
- Data Center Network Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff Data Center Network Engineer posted Oct 7
- Principal Staff Data Center Network Engineer posted Oct 7
- Senior Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Oct 7
- Principal Data Center Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Oct 7
- Applied Researcher – Network Expert posted Oct 7
- Applied Researcher – Data Centers posted Oct 7
- Applied Researcher – AI Expert posted Oct 7
- Senior AI Training Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 7
- Staff AI Training Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 7
- AI Training Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 7
- Vice President - AI Infrastructure Engineering posted Sep 13
From the team and dates on Designworks Talent's own job board.
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