Infrastructure Software Engineer

About the Company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row).

Responsibilities

• Design and build orchestration layers for hybrid high-performance clusters to enable AI ASIC simulation and synthesis.
• Develop a programmable infrastructure control plane to ensure reproducibility and rapid iteration.
• Create tools and abstractions to empower engineers to harness massive parallelism.
• Prototype workload orchestration and migration strategies between on-premise and cloud environments.
• Implement real-time telemetry and tracing systems to surface insights from millions of metrics.
• Build a full observability stack including dashboards, alerting, and synthetic testing frameworks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, or C++.
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Experience with PromQL and architecting observability stacks.
• Proven track record of debugging hardware-software integration problems across bare-metal systems and networks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Bazel build system.
• Deep understanding of ASIC development flows (Synopsys, Cadence, Verilator).
• Experience architecting hybrid on-prem/cloud deployments with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience monitoring and provisioning bare-metal servers and high-performance storage systems.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and VictoriaMetrics.