Systems and Reliability Engineer, Heirloom
$160-180k
+ Stock options
Office located in Brisbane, CA
Direct air carbon capture
Be an early applicant
Direct air carbon capture
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
+ Stock options
Office located in Brisbane, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help build a more resilient and equitable future.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone with strong experience in automation, system provisioning, and monitoring
- You should be proficient in scripting (Python, Bash, etc.) and tools like Ansible and Terraform
- You’ll have experience provisioning and troubleshooting both on-prem and cloud infrastructure, and a strong understanding of network protocols, security practices, and disaster recovery
- You should enjoy solving complex problems, taking a proactive approach to system health, and collaborating with cross-functional teams
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively across teams will be key to your success in this role
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Systems and Reliability Engineer who will play a critical role in building and maintaining resilient infrastructure
- You’ll design and implement automated provisioning, testing and monitoring systems to ensure that our production and R&D software and controls systems are reliable and quick to deploy
- In this way, your work will directly impact the software and controls teams’ ability to respond to the changing needs of the company without sacrificing system reliability
- You will be responsible for ensuring that our infrastructure—both physical and virtual—is always operating at peak performance
- This includes developing tools for provisioning and managing systems, automating failure detection, and building frameworks to monitor critical system metrics like CPU, memory, and storage utilization
- A key part of your role will be establishing a repository of production runtime environments, including virtual PLCs, in order to streamline provisioning of software and controls systems
- You will design and implement high-availability infrastructure that eliminates single points of failure
- This includes setting up monitoring and alerting systems (e.g. , Datadog, PagerDuty) to proactively identify issues and minimize downtime
- You’ll also be responsible for establishing disaster recovery procedures, ensuring that failed hosts can be restored quickly with minimal manual intervention
- Finally, the automation tools that you develop will be utilized by the IT team to provision and maintain reliable networking infrastructure, ensuring that our systems are secure and in compliance with relevant regulations and company policies
- Success will be measured by the repeatability of standard deployments, and the reliability of production systems
- When incidents occur in production systems, the monitoring and alerting systems you’ve developed will provide timely and actionable information for on-call engineers to take quick action
- Well-defined recovery procedures will enable the engineers to restore systems with minimal data loss and downtime
Our take
According to the UN, in order to avoid climate disaster the world needs to both reduce carbon emissions and actively remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. Heirloom develops a technology to handle the latter, using limestone to capture carbon directly from the air and permanently store it - and in doing so delivering high-quality carbon credits for businesses to purchase.
Initially, the company stored captured carbon in underground deposits, but it now also boasts the ability to sequester CO₂ into concrete. This process, which was developed alongside its partner, CarbonCure, actually strengthens the concrete, which can then be used in all types of construction projects.
Crucially, because limestone is so widely available - and because the capture process is a chemical reaction - the process requires minimal land and energy. This allows the company to remain relatively low-impact in its operations, making its carbon removal credits more valuable. This has contributed to the achievement of Microsoft purchasing 315,000 metric tons of carbon removal from the company, in one of the biggest deals of its kind to date.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
66% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$53m
SERIES A
May 2021
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $54m
Company benefits
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by Heirloom (FSA option)
- 16 weeks paid leave for all Heirloom employees, regardless of primary/secondary caregiver status
- Generous stock options
- Unlimited PTO for salaried employees & 80 hours for full time hourly employees
- 401(k)
- Monthly health and wellness reimbursement
- Robust annual education and conference budget, including airfare and hotel costs
Company values
- Radical Honesty: Bottom line - we are open, transparent, and inclusive in everything we do. We aren't scared to challenge each other, but bring clear motives and our best intentions when we do
- Persistent Optimism: We carry an infinite amount of optimistic energy with us on our journey, constantly chipping away at what may seem insurmountable
- Maximize Learning Rate: Compounding knowledge is our key to victory - we continuously hone our crafts, seek the fastest paths to new learning, and are quick to absorb new knowledge
Company HQ
Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Shashank Samala
(CEO)Previously founded Tempo Automation, a robotics and software company that raised millions in funding from venture capitalists.
Noah McQueen
(Head of Research)Earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Worked as a Science Advisor at Carbon Direct for a year.
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