Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer

The Role

Guardian Agriculture is looking to hire a Software Infrastructure Engineer to lead the development of and maintain our internal frameworks and tools. Your work will play a key role in shaping our strategy in the cloud and the structure of our software in the field so we can provide reliable, expedient service to operator teams and engineering teams. You will have high-visibility within the team by enabling data-driven decisions while also maintaining cross-team internal tooling critical for rapid development.
The Team

Guardian Agriculture is developing large multicopters for applying agricultural chemicals to high-value crops. Relative to existing plane- and helicopter-based crop spraying solutions, our systems radically improve precision and safety while reducing chemical use, reducing impact on pollinating insects, and minimizing opportunities for organisms to acquire chemical resistance.

Guardian is a small, multi-disciplinary team of talented engineers, technicians, and operators who prioritize high reliability product and service design over exploratory R&D. We are a hands-on team and split our time between development work, system testing, and field deployments. We value safety, thoughtful design, team work, and a growth mindset as we scale the organization and build an autonomous system that farmers can trust.
Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional groups to develop and maintain a data ingestion and reporting pipeline to allow data from the field to be utilized by Guardian and our customers
• Develop and utilize CI/CD concepts improve existing development and delivery processes
• Select tools, libraries, and approaches that will enable efficient management of infrastructure
• Continually audit, review, and implement best practices for existing infrastructure tools
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing challenging tasks to solve, the freedom to work your way, and resources to acquire new skills

Requirements

• Minimum of 3+ years of professional software infrastructure development or equivalent experience
• Prior experience working on DevOps pipelines.
• Prior experience working with infrastructure as code and infrastructure telemetry tools
• Prior experience managing infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Prior experience using Docker to manage a microservice architecture
• Fluency with Ubuntu and Linux command line scripting and package management
• Desire and ability to learn
• Ability to balance forward-thinking implementation choices with delivering solutions that meet immediate business needs
• Desire to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

Nice to Haves

• Experience in multiple IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and serverless solutions
• Fluency with Python
• Interest in or exposure to data engineering

Benefits

Hybrid work schedule, flexible time off, competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive benefits package, daily lunch, lots of tools, and the opportunity to build,use, and play with flying machines that will have a positive environmental impact.

Guardian Agriculture provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.