Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Zendar

• If you’re excited about infrastructure, streamlining CI/CD processes, and being the guardian of high-quality software delivery, we’d love to hear from you!
• This role is perfect for someone who is comfortable managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously, enjoys interacting frequently with other engineers, and is opinionated about what to prioritize and how to build things
• Ability to work from the office in Berkeley, CA, at least from Tuesday to Thursday
• 5+ years in Infrastructure engineering, DevOps or similar
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and a solid understanding of deployment workflows
• Familiarity with build orchestration technologies and dependency management tools, comfort with containerization (Docker)
• Proficiency with Python and Bash
• A proactive approach to solving problems and willingness to take on new challenges as they arise
• Somebody with solid opinions based on experience, yet open-minded and flexible to find the best solution for the situation

Desirable

• Zendar is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer who understands engineering needs and can work with engineers to make their life easier and more productive
• Our team is a testament of the ability to unite engineers of different backgrounds over a common vision
• We do not shy away from reality and its limitations but we also dream big
• To support our growing team, we’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to elevate our processes and technologies to the next level
• You will be the first engineer on the DevOps team, which means that you will have a lot of influence in shaping all of DevOps at Zendar, but also a lot of responsibility for juggling many priorities and support tickets
• Maintain and adapt CI pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring they remain efficient and scalable as we grow
• Work alongside the engineering team to manage dependencies and deploy updates to the build system, particularly focusing on CMake and Python dependency management toolchains
• Be a go-to resource for solving build and infrastructure-related challenges, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability in the team
• Take on responsibilities as needed, whether it’s troubleshooting a failing build, integrating a new tool, or supporting the team to include a new dependency
• Example of current projects to be involved in this role:
• Our current CI runs in several CI runners and as a result, some failures are difficult to reproduce and debug. We are looking for a more containerized approach to CI, resulting in better debuggability
• We need to improve the release process for several of our repositories. For our monorepo that means revisiting our testing strategy and making sure we can get a high-quality signal on the state of our release branch in a short period of time. For our smaller repos, we need to set up the release processes from scratch
• We have set up basic hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for our systems. We need to grow the list of tested use cases and spread the HIL to all of our systems, getting useful signal to the rest of the engineering in case of break
• Our systems currently run on Ubuntu 20.04 and we want to upgrade to 24.04. The environment relies on a diverse set of libraries and dependencies, and transitioning to the newer version of Ubuntu is expected to introduce compatibility challenges and dependency conflicts
• There are several ideas to improve our build system, for example modularization of the build to allow for faster build experience and better functionality in our cloud environment
• Having large datasets at three geographical sites results in different challenges and some synchronization between locations is inevitable. We are ready to upgrade our data management capabilities

• Applied
• Review
• Hiring Manager Screen
• Technical Python Interview
• Onsite