Compute & Storage Engineer

How do you make our customers happy?

By ensuring our on-premises infrastructure never lets 13.7 million customers and 47k sellers down. As one of our Compute & Storage Engineers, you build and run the infrastructure that supports our data centers, logistics warehouses, and offices. Your work directly impacts critical workloads that power our logistics operations, ensuring every order flows smoothly from warehouses to customers’ doorsteps. While the rest of our industry rushes toward cloud-only strategies, you oversee and evolve the physical backbone that gives bol a competitive advantage through low-latency performance and operational control.

The biggest challenge

Continuously evolving our highly environment while integrating new technologies and sustaining reliability. In an industry where many companies abandon their physical infrastructure entirely, you’ll balance innovation with stability across a hybrid environment. The challenge extends beyond technical optimization – you must ensure seamless operations across multiple locations while supporting business-critical mechanization that demands low-latency performance. With responsibility for 24×7 system availability through on-call rotation (one week out of six), you’ll need to maintain readiness around the clock.

What you'll do as Compute & Storage Engineer

As a key member of the On-Premises Compute & Storage team, you’ll own the day-to-day maintenance and continuous improvement of our compute and storage infrastructure. This includes managing extensive physical and virtual server environments built on KVM (RHEL) and leveraging Puppet for Infrastructure as Code to automate and optimize the environment. You’ll work with NetApp storage solutions in NAS (NFS) contexts and manage the Cohesity backup systems that protect our critical data assets.

Your role combines hands-on technical work with strategic infrastructure planning. You’ll proactively identify optimization opportunities, implement performance improvements, and ensure our systems scale effectively. Through your expertise in highly automated environments, you’ll enhance reliability and efficiency while maintaining stability. Your participation in the on-call rotation ensures continuous system availability, requiring you to diagnose and resolve issues swiftly to minimize operational impact. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the On-Premises Networking team and infrastructure specialists.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain and optimize compute and storage infrastructure across data centers, warehouses, and offices
• Manage physical and virtual server environments using KVM and RHEL technologies
• Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions employing Puppet for automation and configuration management
• Operate NetApp storage systems in NAS (NFS) environments for optimal data access
• Manage Cohesity backup solutions to ensure comprehensive data protection
• Participate in 24×7 on-call rotation to maintain continuous system availability
• Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements and optimizations
• Collaborate with networking and infrastructure teams to drive operational excellence

Why you can make a difference

You have proven expertise in large-scale, highly automated compute and storage environments, combined with a drive to continuously improve. Your technical proficiency with Linux, automation tools, and infrastructure management helps you enhance performance and reliability across a vast infrastructure landscape. While you enjoy visiting the clouds, your commitment to physical infrastructure excellence helps us differentiate our platform and enables superior customer experiences through consistent, low-latency performance.

• - Cloud ruler You prefer purely cloud-based infrastructures and have little interest in on-premises data centers
• - Hardware-shy You're uncomfortable with Linux (RHEL) and automation technologies like Puppet, but just about any role without physical infrastructure responsibilities would be mighty appealing
• - Meticulous minimalist You seek roles with minimal operational responsibility and aren't suited for positions requiring a 24x7 availability mindset

• + Automation enthusiast You thrive in highly automated environments and excel at Infrastructure as Code implementations, particularly with Puppet
• + Infrastructure guardian You're energized by maintaining and improving critical on-premises systems that directly support complex logistics operations
• + Continuous learner You're eager to deepen your expertise in specialized areas, such as NetApp storage and Cohesity backup solutions while mastering new technologies

Where you'll work

At our Utrecht headquarters, where you’ll join the On-Premises Compute & Storage Infrastructure team. Your team and the On-Premises Networking team form our On-Premises division, collectively managing IT infrastructure across data centers, logistics warehouses, offices, and the network connecting them all. This role places you at the heart of operations, supporting 13.7 million customers and 47,000 partners through robust physical infrastructure. The environment values both technical expertise and collaborative problem-solving skills, where your infrastructure knowledge directly enables business success. With 2,900 colleagues driving innovation since 1999, your work ensures our physical foundation remains as cutting-edge as our digital capabilities. Ready to power the infrastructure that keeps millions of customers happy?