# Infrastructure Engineer at MatX

- Company: MatX
- What the company does: We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
- Company website: https://matx.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View (HQ) or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matx/4f0c119d-03b1-431a-968c-9dd46689f3a8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/matx-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

Diagnose and fix issues across the OS, network, and cloud stack Reason about routing, DNS, firewalls, VPCs, private connectivity, and trust boundaries

## What they're looking for

- We care more about instincts and pattern recognition than a checklist of tools. The right person has seen enough systems like ours to know which questions to ask
- Deep Linux systems knowledge. You can debug from userspace down to syscalls and routing tables, and you've spent enough time with namespaces, mounts, and process semantics to recognize their failure modes on sight
- Conservative about new patterns. When introducing a new module or tool, reads a few siblings first to pick up conventions. Spots and questions inherited patterns that don't apply to the new use case
- Threat-modeling instincts for shared infrastructure. Reasons about who can talk to what, what gets cached and trusted by whom, and the blast radius when something goes wrong. Distinguishes load-bearing security choices from defense-in-depth
- Operational thinking. Reasons about apply ordering, coordination windows, and "what fails first if X is misconfigured"
- Surgical git workflow. Knows the rebase tooling well enough that rewriting a branch isn't scary. Splits unrelated work into separate PRs. Never resorts to --no-verify or destructive shortcuts to make a problem go away

Tags: Hardware