Atomic Semi
Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco Office · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- Our philosophy toward infrastructure is minimal, understandable, and close to the hardware.
- You won't find much Docker, cloud services, or Kubernetes here.
- Instead, you will work primarily with bare-metal Linux, systemd, and single-file binaries written in Rust, Go, and occasionally Python.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement light-weight, performant, and reliable software infrastructure to power a semiconductor fab.
- Procure, deploy and manage our fleet of on-prem servers, virtual machines, and single-board computers running on semiconductor fabrication equipment.
- Deploy and manage backend services, e.g., consul, vault, grafana, victoria-metrics, alertmanager, redpanda, vector, gitea, postgres
- Design and setup low level networking components, e.g., service discovery, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, S3 compatible storage, VPNs
- Scale our observability platform: Build systems to ingest and display both traditional system metrics as well as high frequency telemetry from semiconductor fabrication equipment.
- Design and implement cross-site networking, replication and backups.
- Automate OS image creation and deployment and software build and deployment systems.
- Develop best practices and tools for security, authentication, authorization, and secrets management
- Help build our in-house infrastructure-as-code tool.
Requirements
- Required Experience
- Deep proficiency in at least one statically-typed, compiled language, with a strong command of systems fundamentals.
Skills
- 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.
Compensation
- fab2 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 fab2
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off inclusive of Holidays and Sick Time
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Weekly Learning & Development opportunities
- Commuter Benefits including Parking and Late Night Uber rides from the office
- fab2 offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility
- We 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.
Company info
- The Infrastructure team is the backbone of fab2.
- We build the internal tools, databases, deployments, and networking infrastructure that empower our software engineers.
- Our ultimate goal is complete command and control everything in the fab-ensuring our systems remain relentlessly reliable, scalable, and secure as the company grows.
- We are open to a range of experience levels-from exceptional early-career engineers to staff-level builders.
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- Visa Sponsorship
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