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# System Engineer 5

- **Company:** Experis
- **Location:** Redmond, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $152,402.0 - $164,154.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Scripting, Information Technology, Low Latency
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.experis.com/en/job/413130/system-engineer-5

## About the Role

Our client, Engineering Infrastructure & Systems Research is seeking a System Engineer 5 to join their team. As a System Engineer 5, you will be part of the Applications Dev & Test organization supporting a small, high-impact research engineering team building a new micro-VM platform optimized for low-latency, high-density agentic workloads. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux fundamentals, a track record of CI/CD and automation, and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues which will align successfully in the organization., + 3+ years of Linux systems administration and OS-level troubleshooting experience.

 + 3+ years of CI/CD, test infrastructure, and engineering automation experience.
 + 3+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience, including virtualization, cloud compute environments, and scripting.
 + Strong open-source/GitHub track record demonstrating technical work and measurable contributions.
 + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (required).

## Description

+ Provision and manage multi-platform cloud compute environments to support engineering and testing needs.
 + Automate environment configuration to reduce setup overhead and keep infrastructure friction low.
 + Own benchmarking infrastructure for VM lifecycle measurements, including boot latency, snapshot/restore, teardown, memory footprint, and throughput.
 + Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated build/test/validation workflows across project repositories.
 + Investigate performance or test regressions and improve validation reliability through reproducible experiments.