Careers

About Verrus: Data centers should be valuable assets to their customers, the grid, and the local community such that we are able to give customers what they want, where they want it, while cities and utilities are actively seeking us to build in their region. 

Verrus is a developer of next generation, greenfield hyperscale data centers that flexibly leverage its onsite energy infrastructure (i.e. large scale BESS) through our proprietary technology. This allows Verrus to be a flexible resource to the grid, and provide grid services that facilitate interconnection and the effective procurement of power and carbon free energy, and balance traditional and variable uptime workloads (e.g., AI/ML). Verrus builds and capitalizes its turnkey data centers deeply integrated with energy resources, providing significant advantages over traditional designs.

Verrus is led by industry veterans with experience at the largest data center development companies as well as power & utilities, delivering GWs of data center capacity across four continents in their careers (representing billions of investment).

About Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners: 

Verrus is backed by Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners.  With investment from Alphabet, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, and Stepstone Group, SIP is a consolidated holding company that builds innovative technology-enabled infrastructure companies and projects that deliver positive social and environmental impact at scale. SIP believes that technology-enabled infrastructure will help to solve some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Following years of research and in collaboration with the Verrus management team, SIP formed Verrus to design, build, and operate the world’s most innovative data centers, leveraging unique technology to develop a scaled project portfolio that delivers significant financial, environmental, and innovation outcomes.

Role:

Verrus is looking for candidates to serve as software-focused Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Verrus. This is a full-time position based out of the Mountain View, CA office.

Verrus takes a very technology-forward approach to designing data center infrastructure - we operate at the intersection of leading-edge electrical and mechanical engineering, control systems, and software engineering. As a result, software development at Verrus spans a broad space, including integration with physical infrastructure as well as third-party vendors and systems. The Software Infrastructure team touches every aspect of Verrus, from integration with corporate IT to the data center systems.

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of software engineering and critical infrastructure operations. Your primary objective will be to treat infrastructure operations as a software problem: building tooling, automation, platforms and integrations that allow Verrus to deploy and manage software infrastructure with high reliability and scalability.

You will work closely with several teams across the company: software optimization developing the Verrus optimization engine, controls, mechanical and electrical engineering, and product development. 

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): architect, deploy and maintain robust infrastructure applying a software programming mindset, ensuring environments are testable, reproducible, and scalable.
• Tooling & Automation: write high-quality, maintainable code (primarily in Golang) to build internal developer tools, CLI tools, and automation scripts that reduce toil and streamline deployment pipelines.
• Cluster Management: manage and orchestrate containerized applications using both AWS EKS and HCI (Hyper-converged infrastructure) ensuring optimal resource allocation for workloads.
• Reliability & Observability: design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (primarily using Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) to ensure high availability and visibility enabling rapid incident response.
• CI/CD Optimization: help optimize the CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless, safe, and frequent code deployments across environments.
• System Architecture: collaborate with the broader team to design and implement resilient distributed systems that can avoid Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)..
• Mentorship: provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers, championing SRE best practices and software engineering principles within the infrastructure domain.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Golang is required. You should be comfortable writing production-grade software, not just scripting.
• Deep experience with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration.
• Proven track record of managing infrastructure using code (Pulumi preferred).
• A solid foundation in computer science or software engineering principles, including data structures, algorithms, and system design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with energy data standards and protocols (e.g, Modbus TCP, DNP3, MQTT), IoT protocols, or industrial control systems.
• Familiarity with NATS or other publish/subscribe technologies.
• Familiarity with Rust and functional programming basics.
• An understanding of distributed systems and general RPC architectures.
• Ability to efficiently identify and resolve issues using problem-solving and communication skills.
• Adaptability to work in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment and picking up new technical areas of expertise.

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position in California is $150,000-$180,000. Salary is only one part of Verrus’ comprehensive compensation package, which also includes a discretionary bonus, equity, general health benefits and paid time off. Compensation is determined by multiple factors, including market location, and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  

How to Apply

If you are interested in consideration for this role, please apply through careers@verrusdata.com by submitting your resume with the job title in the subject line of your application email. Due to the amount of interest in Verrus’ work, we may not have the chance to follow up with you directly following your submission.

We are an equal opportunity employer. For us, this is more than legal boilerplate; it is reflective of a deeply held belief that our success depends on our willingness to recruit, hire, empower, compensate, reward, and promote the best and brightest individuals, of all backgrounds and characteristics.