Senior / Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more.

At AllSpice, we’re building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI / CD framework for native circuit designs - think GitHub / GitLab + Copilot for electronics.

Read more about our latest Series A announcement here !

You will improve our cloud infrastructure architecture as we scale up our products and services. The initial role will be about 50 / 50 individual contribution to technical leadership, responsible for both shaping the roadmap for our infrastructure as well as contributing to the implementation.

If you are passionate about optimizing infrastructure at scale and have a strong background in security engineering, this role is for you.

What will you do?

This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, collaborative person. You will be focused on managing our infrastructure and security processes, and should be able to :

Work closely with a customer success manager to manage enterprise deployments and SSO integrations

Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems

Automate new software deployments, data backups, and data recovery

Monitor and improve the performance and availability of our cloud infrastruture

Take part in an on-call rotation and incident response

Manage process for SOC 2 compliance & pentesting

Example projects

Scale out our infrastructure for zero-downtime software deployments

Identify opportunities to decrease cloud cost and increase performance

Stress-test backups and disaster recovery

Coordinate with customer success to support enterprise configuration (Eg. SSO)

Work with development team to support CI / CD workflows

Manage process for SOC 2 accreditation

Support future hiring and team organization

Our stack

Terraform & Docker Swarm deployed to AWS for production infrastructure

Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for observability

GitHub Actions for CI / CD

Playwright for e2e testing

Gitea application fork

go [server-side]

Postgres DB

Expectations

Our ideal candidate should have the following :

8+ years of cloud infrastructure experience

Availability to work out of our flex offices in San Francisco or Boston on a hybrid basis (2-3 times / week)

Bachelor's degree or higher in a technology-related field

Project management skills with ability to lead and collaborate with varied stakeholders, from engineers to customers, to move projects forward

Experience managing software projects using tools such as JIRA, Notion, or a similar issue-tracking system

Can think in terms of the big picture but deliver on the details

Ability to manage ambiguity gracefully, autonomy, and confidence in being self-directed

Relevant skills

You don’t necessarily have to be proficient in all of these, but the more you know the better :

Hiring and Project Management

AWS services (eg. IAM, GuardDuty, Elastisearch, Elasticache, lambda) and alternatives

Logging aggregation (eg. Loki, Datadog)

Docker and Kubernetes

Bash and Python scripting

nginx and alternate reverse-proxy services

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 familiarity

SSO, OIDC, and LDAP

Benefits

Supportive and smart colleagues, flexible work, opportunity to make a big impact, competitive salary & equity, health, dental, vision, generous PTO, home office stipend.