Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure – Release

Job Description:

• Lead infrastructure at Feanix and own the foundation other engineers build on
• Own the delivery ecosystem from an engineer’s commit through decisions landing on a farm
• Build alerting and service-level objectives for overnight farm pipelines
• Build a release path where staging runs on every commit and engineers receive rapid feedback
• Own infrastructure as code end to end
• Establish and manage cost baselines per herd, reduce waste, and help estimate costs before deployment
• Build test infrastructure for third-party herd software and machines moving files to and from farms
• Support infrastructure using Python, AWS, FastAPI, Celery, ECS Fargate, PostgreSQL, S3, OpenTofu, and GitHub Actions
• Participate in weekly on-call and triage rotation
• Travel 15–20%, including visits to commercial dairies and Feanix headquarters

Requirements:

• Strong OpenTofu or Terraform and real AWS depth, including ECS/Fargate, IAM, S3, and networking
• Experience with CI design, test environments with real databases, staged rollouts, and regression testing of pipeline outputs
• Operational judgment regarding alerting and service objectives
• Comfort with heterogeneous compute
• Strong Python
• GitHub Actions and OIDC
• Security fundamentals
• Daily, load-bearing use of coding agents and a clear position on where they break down
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
• Unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfers
• Preferred: experience supporting a small team through rapid growth
• Preferred: fleet management for software running on machines you do not control
• Preferred: SOC 2 or similar compliance readiness
• Agriculture or biology experience is not required

Benefits:

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Pet insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• Paid parental leave, including up to twelve weeks of paid leave and/or supplemental pay coordination with applicable state benefits
• Equity options
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and interview process