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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Altara· Engineering
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San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

We’re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. We’re creating an intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster from R&D through manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and own complex customer-hosted cloud deployments that run scalably and reliably across diverse customer environments.
  • Triage, debug, and resolve high-severity issues end-to-end, building bulletproof automated safeguards and observability to permanently prevent regressions.
  • Design fully automated, repeatable deployment pipelines with deep observability to proactively surface edge cases before they hit production.
  • Drive developer velocity and build internal tooling that empower the engineering team to ship fast without sacrificing reliability or security.

Qualifications

  • Operating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
  • Delivering on-prem or customer-hosted software
  • Strong Linux, networking and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals
  • Independently owning incidents and communicating with customers
  • Public cloud/AWS etc, Managed Kubernetes knowledge, IaC tools like Terraform
  • GitOps/Argo CD, Linux, networking, IAM and observability tooling
  • On-prem deployment; air-gapped experience is a bonus

Skills

Required:KubernetesCloud infrastructureOn-prem / edge deploymentsInfrastructure as Code
Nice to have:GitOps / Argo CD
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Altara

Scientific Intelligence for the Physical World

Altara is building the scientific intelligence platform that helps frontier industries accelerate R&D through manufacturing.

AIscienceengineeringsemiconductorsadvanced materialsbatteriesmedical devicesspecialty chemicals
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