Infrastructure Lead
Afresh Technologies
Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!
Beyond helming our production infrastructure, the software engineering infrastructure team is the caretaker and standards-setter of all of Afresh’s internal systems. From automating continuous delivery pipelines to building out a unified single-sign-on identity platform, team members are singularly empowered to make sure that Afresh stays abreast of the latest methodologies for running a modern fully-in-the-cloud organization. Our systems are written in Python and TypeScript and run fully containerized on top of Azure Kubernetes Service provisioned with Terraform. We deploy through CircleCI several times a day and rely on Datadog and Sentry to alert us when anything goes wrong. In this role you will:
Responsibilities:
- Lead infrastructure engineering by overseeing architecture, security, and development of scalable and secure infrastructure for internal engineering teams.
- Partner with engineering teams to analyze their infrastructure needs and develop tailored, intrusion-resistant solutions.
- Improve the observability of infrastructure to ensure high reliability and performance.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and restore services quickly.
- Ensure infrastructure compliance with security and data protection regulations.
- Recommend upgrades, monitor/alert to stay ahead of problems, address root causes to avoid repeat incidents.
- Mentor junior infrastructure engineers.
- Utilize Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Public Cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP, InfoSec, SCRUM/Kanban, CI/CD, Cloud services, Jenkins, Docker, Golang, Ruby, Jira, Github.
- Position may include a telecommuting benefit from anywhere in the United States.
REQUIREMENTS:
- At least a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Three (3) years of experience as a software engineer (any title), including developing services on public cloud and/or cloud foundations and using AWS, CI/CD, GCP, Terraform, Python, Ruby, Go, and Jenkins.
- Must include at least two (2) years developing blocks foundational tooling including Terraform pipelines; engaging in Continuous Deployment for AWS cloud; developing APIs and provisioning tools; and using Kubernetes and Cloud Formation.
- Position includes a telecommuting benefit from anywhere in the United States.
The above represent attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
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About Afresh
Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.
Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.
Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.
Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.