Automation & Tools Engineer
- Salary
- $185K - $205K
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 5 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Automation and Tools Engineer to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our core platform—including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with SREs and developers to automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure, with a focus on build and deployment systems, as well as configuration management
- Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning
- Create and configure tools for datacenter provisioning, configuration management, observability using standard and custom tools
- Improve developer experience by providing tools for self-service
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes (SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations)
- Collaborate across engineering and data science teams to drive a culture of performance and reliability
- Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across our physical and cloud infrastructure
- Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Tools development, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
- Good programming skills with IaC (infrastructure as code) languages such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize
- Good programming skills with general-purpose languages such as Python or Go
- Deep experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally
Nice-to-Have
- Familiarity with build configuration tools, software dependency management and C++
- Experience with datacenter automation such as system imaging and configuration management
- Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
- Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
- Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments
What You’ll Get
- Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure in a company solving real-world enterprise problems
- A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture
- The ability to influence how our platform scales—from deployment to incident management
- An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Golang · Helm
Rare in Alembic's other 8 open postings.
In most of Alembic's ads
Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
Compared with Alembic's other open jobs.
The team: Technical Operations HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 5 open in Technical Operations. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in December: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Bash (5 of 5), Python (5 of 5), Airflow (4 of 5), Ansible (4 of 5), Datadog (4 of 5), Grafana (4 of 5), Kafka (4 of 5)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Sep 16
- Corporate IT Engineer posted Sep 4
- Senior Network Engineer posted Jun 12
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer posted Dec 22
From the team and dates on Alembic's own job board.
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