Alembic

Automation & Tools Engineer

San Francisco HQ. Posted 9 days ago

The role

You will build, automate, and maintain infrastructure including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems. You will partner with engineers and data scientists to scale the platform with reliability and observability.

What you will do

  • Automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure
  • Improve system reliability and performance through automation and capacity planning
  • Create and configure tools for datacenter provisioning and observability
  • Improve developer experience by providing tools for self-service
  • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes
  • Collaborate across engineering and data science teams
  • Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness
  • Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Tools development, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
  • Good programming skills with IaC languages such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize
  • Good 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 and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
  • Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.)
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with build configuration tools, software dependency management and C++
  • Experience with datacenter automation such as system imaging and configuration management
  • Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
  • Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
  • Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments

About the company

alembic is a company solving real-world enterprise problems.