Infrastructure Software Engineer

The role

You will lead the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling to support Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers. This includes building a hybrid high-performance compute cluster and architecting a state-of-the-art observability stack.

What you will do

• Design and build orchestration layers for hybrid high-performance clusters
• Develop and maintain a programmable infrastructure control plane
• Create tools and abstractions for massive parallelism
• Prototype and execute workload orchestration and migration strategies between on-premise and cloud
• Implement real-time telemetry and tracing systems
• Build a full observability stack including dashboards, alerting, and synthetic testing

Required qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, and C++
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet
• Understand and use PromQL and other telemetry/query languages
• Track record of debugging and resolving hardware-software integration problems
• Ability to lead and mentor technical teams
• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Bazel build system
• Deep understanding of ASIC development flows, especially those involving Synopsys, Cadence, and Verilator
• Hands-on experience architecting systems with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience monitoring, provisioning, and debugging bare-metal servers, network hardware, and high-performance storage systems
• Comfortable in profiling and optimizing compute environments for single-threaded latency, memory-bound workloads, or I/O throughput
• Proficiency building or operating telemetry systems at scale using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaMetrics

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch + dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

About the company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. They are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row).