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Mechanical Orchard · 6 hours ago

Infrastructure Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

Mechanical Orchard is a company that specializes in modernizing critical business applications with their Generative AI platform, Imogen. They are seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to work in a cross-functional team, building infrastructure as code and collaborating closely with product managers and designers to deploy their platform to client cloud infrastructures.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesDeveloper APIsDevOpsSoftware

Responsibilities

Work as part of small, cross functional XP team building infrastructure as code for our product teams to build and release Imogen, our Generative AI platform

Pair program with other engineers and collaborate closely with other roles such as product managers and designers

Work with client infrastructure, security, and network teams to deploy Imogen to their cloud infrastructure

Lead and collaborate on technical discovery efforts for existing customer systems cloud infrastructure and adapt Imogen to their public cloud estate

Apply and evolve XP engineering practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration and continuous delivery

Adapt XP practices for working with AI—whether co-writing code, managing agents and their context, or knowing when to push back and trust your own instincts

Operate and support production applications as a team in the context of the agile DevSecOps model

Help onboard client developers and/or new Mechanical Orchard team members with practices and techniques

Continuously learn about relevant emerging technologies or practices and foster the growth of the organization through mentorship, tech talks, and other means

Participate in a “follow the sun” on-call rotation for incident response and management of cloud infrastructure

Qualification

Infrastructure as CodeCloud InfrastructurePair ProgrammingTest Driven DevelopmentKubernetesTerraformDockerEmpathyCommunicationCollaboration SkillsAttention to DetailStrategic Thinking

Required

Experience as a software engineer in a professional, team based environment

Exposure or demonstrated passion for XP practices such as pair programming and test driven development

Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software/Computer Engineering, or a related field or possess equivalent foundational experience such as completion of a coding bootcamp or similar technical training

Strategic thinking, technical skills, attention to detail

Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly

Strong communication and collaboration skills as well as empathy

Comfortable with pair programming

Experience or demonstrated passion for cloud infrastructure and related tooling

Preferred

Comfortable building and deploying to cloud infrastructure

Experience in at least one infrastructure as code tool and public cloud provider

Experience developing a platform as a service product

Experience with some of the following technologies: Infrastructure as code automation tooling like Terraform, Deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes with Helm, Docker and/or Nix for building images and packages, Building infrastructure scripts and CLI tools using bash, Go or a similar language