Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for businesses and developers around the world. With 32 cloud data center locations around the world, Vultr has served over 1.5 million customers across 185 countries with flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and completely bootstrapped, Vultr has become the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing company without ever raising equity financing.
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
- A 100% remote work environment + a company-wide virtual get together
- 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 + take off your birthday!
- Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year anniversary + 1 month sabbatical at 5 year anniversary + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 first year remote office setup + $400 each year following for new equipment
- Monthly internet reimbursement up to $75
- $50 per month for a gym membership
Join Vultr
The engineering team is a central pillar of our growth strategy, and we are looking for a senior software engineer - platform to help drive our long-term virtualization strategy. You’ll be a critical member of our talented Platform Development team, which focuses on modernizing, hardening, and accelerating the work we do with PHP.
What to expect:
- Development & Improvement: Work directly with our Engineering teams to improve existing functionality and features of our PHP monolithic control plane and server-side code. Python and Golang are also in use.
- Modernization: Lead the effort to transition our PHP applications to modern frameworks like Laravel.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with internal and external teams to support the resourcing and deployment of new features.
- Optimization: Work to improve observability, help with automation, and develop or expand our pipelines.
- Mentorship: Provide leadership and guidance to other developers within the team.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with the platform engineering team to enable their efforts within the PHP control plane and collaborate with other developers across various teams as needed.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience with PHP-FPM
- Experience with Python or Go is a plus.
- Experience in Linux Virtualization technologies like KVM, Qemu, and Libvirt performance and operations at scale. Experience with MicroVMs is a plus.
- A strong belief in documentation as a core aspect of engineering.
- Experience developing modern distributed applications with reliable REST interfaces and distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka or Nats.io
- Experience with configuration management solutions like Puppet and Ansible is a plus.
- Experience with Windows is a plus.
Compensation
$120,000 - $155,000This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background, and skill set.#LI-DNI Vultr is committed to an inclusive workforce where diversity is celebrated and supported. All employment decisions at Vultr are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.Vultr regards the lawful and correct use of personal information as important to the accomplishment of our objectives, to the success of our operations and to maintaining confidence between those with whom we deal and ourselves.
As such the use of various key privacy controls enables Vultr’s treatment of personal information to meet current regulatory guidelines and laws.Workforce members have the right under US state law where and when applicable and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to: fair and equal treatment, knowing what personal data we gather and retain, for what purpose, and the ability to access and/or delete such data. You also have the right to opt out of communications from Vultr and approved third- parties at any time.
