Infrastructure Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mechanical Orchard, a company specializing in safely rewriting complex business applications using its Generative AI platform, Imogen. As an Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will work in a small, cross-functional team, building infrastructure as code for Imogen. You will pair program, collaborate with other roles, and work with client infrastructure teams. The role involves leading technical discovery efforts, adapting Imogen to client cloud infrastructure, and applying XP engineering practices. You will also operate and support production applications, onboard clients and team members, and participate in on-call rotation. Continuous learning and contributing to organizational growth are also expected.

Requirements

• As the ideal candidate, you have experience as a software engineer in a professional, team based environment, with 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 are essential for working closely with the development team, customers, and others at Mechanical Orchard
• Comfortable with pair programming, Mechanical Orchard’s default mode of working together
• Experience or demonstrated passion for cloud infrastructure and related tooling

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

Preferred Qualifications

• You are comfortable building and deploying to cloud infrastructure, and have 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