Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Role Description

As an Infrastructure Software Engineer in Delivery at Mechanical Orchard, you will be expected to:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Things to Consider Before Applying

• This role is client-facing and partner-facing; communication, facilitation and collaboration are core parts of the work.
• Our technology organization has an on-call rotation essential to operating the systems we deliver. You may be expected to participate in this rotation based on business needs.
• Pair programming is a foundational practice and may involve a learning curve.
• Periodic travel is expected.
• Collaboration across time zones is part of the role, with teams located across North America and Europe.