{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4f202d190e37fc0c3c79e802","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4f202d190e37fc0c3c79e802","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4f202d190e37fc0c3c79e802","title":"Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer","description":"About Atomic Semi\nAtomic Semi is building a small, fast semiconductor fab. It’s already possible to build this with today’s technology and a few simplifications. We’ll build the tools ourselves so we can quickly iterate and improve. We’re building a small team of exceptional, hands-on engineers to make this happen. Mechanical, electrical, hardware, computer, and process. We’ll own the stack from atoms to architecture. Our team is optimistic about the future and we want to continue pushing the limits of technology. Smaller is better. Faster is better. Building it ourselves is better. We believe our team and lab can build anything. We’ve set up 3D printers, a wide array of microscopes, e-beam writers, general fabrication equipment - and whatever is missing, we’ll just invent along the way. Atomic was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller. Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years.\n\nAbout the role\nWe are seeking an Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, deploy, and manage the on-prem backend infrastructure that powers our small, fast semiconductor fab. This is a broad role encompassing all aspects of backend infrastructure and services. Our philosophy towards infra is minimal, understandable, on-site, and close to the hardware. You won’t find much docker, cloud services, or kubernetes. Instead, there is a lot of bare-metal linux, systemd, and single file binaries. You’ll see a lot of rust and go and occasionally some python. We’re open to a range of experience levels — from exceptional early-career engineers to senior and staff-level builders. There isn’t a single background we’re optimizing for. What matters most is that you’ve already built real things, you love getting close to the metal, and show strong signs of engineering excellence. If you’re excited by performance engineering, building complex features from scratch, and learning new domains quickly, this is a great place for you.\n\nA portfolio or GitHub is generally required to apply: show us the things you’ve built! For us, a good portfolio includes evidence of strong engineering skills and curiosity.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nDesign and implement light-weight, performant, and reliable software infrastructure to power a semiconductor fab.\n\nProcure, deploy and manage our fleet of on-prem servers, virtual machines, and single-board computers running on semiconductor fabrication equipment.\n\nDeploy and manage backend services, e.g., consul, vault, grafana, victoria-metrics, alertmanager, redpanda, vector, gitea, postgres\n\nDesign and setup low level networking components, e.g., service discovery, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, S3 compatible storage, VPNs\n\nScale our observability platform: Build systems to ingest and display both traditional system metrics as well as high frequency telemetry from semiconductor fabrication equipment.\n\nDesign and implement cross-site networking, replication and backups.\n\nAutomate OS image creation and deployment and software build and deployment systems.\n\nDevelop best practices and tools for security, authentication, authorization, and secrets management\n\nHelp build our in-house infrastructure-as-code tool.\n\nRequired Experience\n\nBS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering\n\nDeep experience in at least one statically-typed, compiled language\n\nBackend infrastructure or SRE experience\n\nCode portfolio – show us something you’ve built either professionally or personally. Could be a backend service, homelab setup script, etc.\n\nNice-to-have\n\nRust or go experience\n\nOn-prem infra experience\n\nWorking at Atomic Semi\nWe’re an early-stage hardware startup with solid funding, world-class advisors, and a lab/office in San Francisco, CA.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompensation: Atomic Semi is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The annual salary range for this role is $125,000 – $195,000. Compensation is determined based on your qualifications and experience. Our total compensation package also includes generous equity in Atomic Semi.\n\nBenefits: Atomic Semi offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:\n\nMedical, Dental, and Vision insurance\n\nGenerous Paid Time Off inclusive of Holidays and Sick Time\n\nVisa Sponsorship\n\nLife and Disability Insurance\n\nPaid Parental Leave\n\n401(k) retirement plan\n\nWeekly Learning & Development opportunities\n\nCommuter Benefits including Parking and Late Night Uber rides from the office\n\nLunches daily, Dinners 3x per week, Stocked Office Kitchen with Snacks and Spindrifts\n\nWe are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.\n\nExport Control Analysis: This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. 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