Infrastructure Architect: Hybrid Cloud & Automation Lead

Figure; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Figure is an AI robotics company building autonomous humanoid robots headquartered in San Jose, CA. We seek an Infrastructure Engineer to own internal systems infrastructure, delivering highly available, automated platforms across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and security collaboration to ensure reliability at scale. You will design and operate fault-tolerant systems, implement IaC, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-prem hardware architectures.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Mastery of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible…).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog…).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancers, firewalls).
• Experience defining SLOs, developing runbooks/incident response plans, facilitating post-mortems and managing systems assets.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams with developers, infra, and product teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the go to person for mission critical infrastructure enabling operations such as Source Configuration Management, CI/CD systems, software distribution, supplier portals, manufacturing and more.
• Migrate SaaS to self-hosted solutions to enhance security and reliability.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems, and define incident response plans and runbooks.
• Reduce human workload through automation to automate deployment and scaling.
• Establish strong relationships with stakeholders to identify infrastructure needs and establish Service Level Objectives.
• Use a data driven approach to demonstrate service robustness and track optimization work.
• Partner with the security team to ensure that security remediations and updates are applied in a timely manner.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Scripting

Cloud platforms

HA/Distributed systems

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring

Networking

SLO/Runbooks

Cross-functional

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Figure is an AI robotics company building autonomous humanoid robots headquartered in San Jose, CA. We seek an Infrastructure Engineer to own internal systems infrastructure, delivering highly available, automated platforms across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and security collaboration to ensure reliability at scale. You will design and operate fault-tolerant systems, implement IaC, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define