# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Atomicsemi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/atomicsemi)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $125k – $195k/yr
**Skills:** Linux, Systemd, Rust, Go, Python, Consul, Vault, Grafana, Victoriametrics, Alertmanager, Redpanda, Postgres, DNS, Tls, Vpn
**Posted:** 2026-02-13

> Designs, deploys, and manages bare-metal on-prem infrastructure including servers, networking, observability, and backend services for a semiconductor fab. Requires hands-on SRE experience, systems programming in Rust/Go/Python, and BS in CS/CE or equivalent.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement light-weight, performant, and reliable software infrastructure to power a semiconductor fab.
- Procure, deploy and manage our fleet of on-prem servers, virtual machines, and single-board computers running on semiconductor fabrication equipment.
- Deploy and manage backend services, e.g., **consul**, **vault**, **grafana**, **victoria-metrics**, **alertmanager**, **redpanda**, **vector**, **gitea**, **postgres**.
- Design and setup low level networking components, e.g., service discovery, **DNS**, reverse proxies, **TLS**, S3 compatible storage, **VPNs**.
- Scale our observability platform: Build systems to ingest and display both traditional system metrics as well as high frequency telemetry from semiconductor fabrication equipment.
- Design and implement cross-site networking, replication and backups.
- Automate OS image creation and deployment and software build and deployment systems.
- Develop best practices and tools for security, authentication, authorization, and secrets management.
- Help build our in-house infrastructure-as-code tool.

## Required Experience
- **BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering**, or equivalent demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in backend infrastructure or **Site Reliability Engineering**, successfully and autonomously taking complex systems from concept to production.
- Deep proficiency in at least one **statically-typed, compiled language**, with a strong command of systems fundamentals.

## Nice-to-haves
- Hands-on programming experience in **Rust** or **Go**.
- Direct experience designing and managing **on-premise, bare-metal infrastructure** without relying on heavy cloud abstractions.

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