Senior Software Engineer – Bare Metal Infrastructure 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll deliver complex code solutions. You’ll support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, diagnose / solve production support or on-call issues. You’ll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance and provide end-to-end support. 

Once you’re eligible, you’ll become an Owner in the company, so we’re looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. “Partner owned” means our most important resources—People— drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company. 

Do you have a:  

HEART FOR PEOPLE… skills to organize multiple engineers, negotiate solutions, and provide upward communication?  

HEAD FOR BUSINESS… consistency in demonstrating / upholding standards of coding, infrastructure, and process?  

PASSION FOR RESULTS… capable of high-velocity contributions? 

What is the work?  

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the software that automates lifecycle management and monitoring of bare metal infrastructure. The ideal candidate will combine deep software engineering expertise and a passion for automation with systems, networking, and physical infrastructure knowledge to provide highly reliable, scalable, and secure private cloud resources for H-E-B. 

Key Responsibilities 

Platform Engineering 

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality software systems capable of managing thousands of bare metal physical servers across multiple datacenter environments 

• Build and maintain services supporting hardware inventory, asset management, firmware upgrades, and operating system deployment. 

• Create solutions for automated hardware validation, diagnostics, remediation, and recovery to improve system resiliency, availability, and operational efficiency. 

• Drive observability initiatives related to physical infrastructure, including metrics, logging, tracing, and automated alerting. 

• Develop APIs, tools, and workflows that enable self-service infrastructure operations. 

• Develop testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality and deployment consistency. 

Technical Leadership 

• Lead projects from inception through deployment and operational ownership. 

• Influence technical strategy for infrastructure automation and platform modernization through participation in architectural reviews and design discussions 

• Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. 

• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on software architecture and engineering best practices. 

Success Measures 

A successful Senior Software Engineer in this role will: 

• Reduce operational effort through reusable automation and self-service capabilities that modernize bare metal operations and improve deployment speed, reliability, and consistency. 

• Deliver high-quality software systems that effectively manage physical infrastructure at scale. 

• Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture. 

What is your background? 

− A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience − 5+ years of experience in software development − Proficient in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks. 

− Advanced knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns  

− Able to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential.  

− Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)  

− Experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results.  

− Comprehensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, system architecture and design patterns 

 − Advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes  

- Experience developing and operating infrastructure-as-code solutions using Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation frameworks. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience automating hardware lifecycle management, firmware orchestration/automation, and capacity management across large scale physical infrastructure environments. 

• Expertise with bare metal provisioning technologies such as PXE/iPXE, Redfish, and BMC/IPMI 

• Experience integrating bare metal infrastructure with virtualization and private cloud solutions. 

• Experience with one or more private cloud/virtualization platforms such as OpenStack (Ironic, Nova, Neutron) and/or VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX). 

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization platforms 

• Experience using observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Datadog 

• Knowledge of storage technologies and distributed storage platforms. 

• Understanding of security, compliance, and secure infrastructure design principles. 

Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Senior Software Engineer? 

− High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth  

− Adjust – Leverages Agile metrics to improve team performance and deliverables. Evaluates and adjusts resources, self, and team as necessary. 

 − Collaborate – Ability to work on tasks which span multiple domains, requiring cross-team collaboration, which have a high impact on your project.  

− Agility – Embraces risk, change, and helps team manage ambiguity within the team’s scope of work. Able to drive progress without having a complete picture and can articulate potential tradeoffs and prioritize when faced with ambiguity.  

− Connect – Delivers clear, concise, effective messages across different levels; can tailor communication based on intended audience.  

− Growth Mindset – Fosters a culture of mentoring and coaching across multiple technical teams and other stakeholders.  

− Relate – Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively with inquisitiveness, and use contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations. 

Can you...  

− Travel by car or plane with overnight stays  

− Work extended hours; sit for extended periods  

− Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed  

11-2024