Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Mechanical Orchard specializes in rewriting critical business applications to adapt to market challenges. As a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will work with cross-functional teams to deploy their Generative AI platform, Imogen, into client cloud environments while applying XP engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a small, cross functional XP team installing Imogen into client cloud environments partnering with client infosec, infrastructure, and IT teams
• 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
• Help onboard client and/or partner 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

Requirements:

• Experience as a consultant, managing infrastructure, leveraging IaC as a software professional, working within a team environment, with exposure or demonstrated passion for XP practices such as pair programming and automation
• 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
• Comfortable working with external customers and troubleshooting issues with customer network, infosec, and support teams
• 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