The San Francisco Compute Company
Tooling Engineer
San Francisco, CA
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 35 days ago
KubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDData EngineeringCadenceLeadership
About the role
- You will embed with the people you serve, watch how they actually work, and fix what slows them down.
- Other weeks it means a staging environment, a per-engineer developer sandbox, an internal data pipeline, or better tooling for AI coding agents.
- You decide what matters most by talking to your internal customers, not by waiting for a spec.
Responsibilities
- Embed with engineers across the company, learn their workflows, and find the bottlenecks nobody owns
- Build and operate the systems beneath daily engineering work: build pipelines, infrastructure as code, internal services, and the production platform
- Drive ambiguous problems to clear outcomes, deciding what to build, not just how to build it
- Track the metrics that show whether engineering is getting faster and more reliable (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, time to restore)
- Ability to scope your own work and operate without a spec. The first job is figuring out what the problem actually is
- We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.
Requirements
- You can explain your work clearly, demo it, and write it down
- Comfort with ambiguity and a small ego, in the sense of caring more about the outcome than about owning it
Nice to have
- experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or similar), Kubernetes, ETL and analytical data stores, or AI coding tools such as Claude Code
- familiarity with marketplace or infrastructure business models
- The tooling team is small, trusted, and independent.
- The work you produce is a real artifact, not a presentation deck, and on a team this size your impact is immediate and legible.
- Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits
- We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
- We cover lunch daily for employees
- You can buy as many books for the office as you want
Compensation
- Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
Benefits
- Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
- We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
- We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
- We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
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