Sr Software Engineer- Bare Metal Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer – Bare Metal Infrastructure

Since H-E-B Digital Technology’s inception,we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, make food decisions, and ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital—we’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience.

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?

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

− 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.

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