Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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

Job summary

Figure, an AI robotics company headquartered in San Jose, CA, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own our internal systems infrastructure and ensure highly available, automated operations across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will migrate SaaS to self-hosted solutions, implement monitoring and alerting, and define incident response runbooks while collaborating with security and cross‑functional teams. Strong Linux, cloud, IaC, and networking skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience managing Linux/Unix infrastructure at scale.
• Strong scripting/programming skills for automation.
• Experience with cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Design and operate highly available, distributed systems.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.
• Monitoring, logging, and alerting with modern tools.
• Networking fundamentals and security awareness.
• Ability to define SLOs, runbooks, and post‑mortems.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own mission critical infrastructure enabling operations such as SCM, CI/CD, 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 administration

Scripting

Networking fundamentals

SLOs and runbooks

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own our internal systems infrastructure. This role is responsible for setting up and managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure to deliver highly available, reliable, and automated systems.

Responsibilities

• Be the go to person for mission critical infrastructure enabling critical 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.

Requirements

• 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 Service Level Objectives (SLO), 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

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $175,000 - $250,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.