Senior Platform Automation Engineer

alembic.com; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Alembic is seeking an experienced Senior Automation and Tools Engineer in San Francisco to scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operations at the core. You will partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain infrastructure powering data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics.

This hands-on role offers visibility across the stack and an opportunity to shape infrastructure and operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Tools, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Proficient with IaC: Ansible, Helm, Kustomize.
• Strong Python or Go programming skills.
• Deep containerization with Docker and Kubernetes; Linux networking basics.
• Experience with monitoring stacks and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Automate and control datacenter and cloud infrastructure focusing on build and deployment systems.
• Improve reliability and performance through automation and observability.
• Create and configure datacenter provisioning and configuration management tools.
• Enhance developer experience with self-service tooling.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response (SLOs, runbooks).
• Collaborate with engineering and data science to drive reliability.
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across infrastructure.
• Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement.

Skills

Ansible

Helm/Kustomize

Python/Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/Networking

CI/CD

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Datadog

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Alembic is seeking an experienced Senior Automation and Tools Engineer in San Francisco to scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operations at the core. You will partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain infrastructure powering data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics.

This hands-on role offers visibility across the stack and an opportunity to shape infrastructure and operations.