Automation & Tools Engineer
Alembic · San Francisco HQ
About this role
**ABOUT THE ROLE** We’re looking for an experienced **Senior Automation & Tools Engineer** to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure powering our core platform—**data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems**. This is a **hands-on, high-impact** role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations. --- **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** - Work closely with **SREs and developers** to automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on **build/deployment systems** and **configuration management** - Improve **reliability and performance** through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning - Create and configure tools for **datacenter provisioning**, **configuration management**, and **observability** (standard + custom tools) - Improve **developer experience** with **self-service** tooling - Implement and maintain **monitoring, alerting, and incident response** processes (e.g., **SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations**) - Collaborate across engineering and data science teams to drive a culture of **performance and reliability** - Ensure **security, compliance, and operational readiness** across physical and cloud infrastructure - Drive **post-incident analysis** and continuous improvement initiatives --- **MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS** - **5+ years** experience in **Tools development, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering** - Strong programming skills with **IaC** (e.g., **Ansible, Helm, Kustomize**) - Strong programming skills with general-purpose languages such as **Python or Go** - Deep experience with **containerization (Docker)** and **Kubernetes** - Strong knowledge of **Linux systems** and **networking fundamentals** - Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (e.g., **Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry**) - Proficiency with **CI/CD** tools and pipelines (e.g., **GitHub Actions, ArgoCD**) - Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions using scripting (e.g., **Python, Bash**) - Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally --- **NICE-TO-HAVE** - Familiarity with build configuration tools, software dependency management, and **C++** - Experience with datacenter automation (e.g., **system imaging**, configuration management) - Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (e.g., **Spark, Airflow, Kafka**) - Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure - Experience in high-compliance or **SOC-2** environments --- **WHAT YOU’LL GET** - Ownership of **mission-critical infrastructure** in a company solving real-world enterprise problems - A front-row seat to a **high-performance engineering culture** - The ability to influence how our platform scales—from **deployment to incident management** - An environment that values **curiosity, accountability, and impact**
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