Infrastructure Software Engineer, Mechanical Orchard
AI testing to help modernize critical systems
Be an early applicant
AI testing to help modernize critical systems
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help customers stay ahead of the curve, compete at an ever-accelerating pace, and win in their markets.
Role
Who you are
- As the ideal candidate, you have experience as a software engineer in a professional, team based environment, with exposure or demonstrated passion for XP practices such as pair programming and test driven development
- Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, or a related field or possess equivalent foundational experience such as completion of a coding bootcamp or similar technical training
- Strategic thinking, technical skills, attention to detail
- Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly
- Strong communication and collaboration skills as well as empathy are essential for working closely with the development team, customers, and others at Mechanical Orchard
- Comfortable with pair programming, Mechanical Orchard’s default mode of working together
- Experience or demonstrated passion for cloud infrastructure and related tooling
Desirable
- You are comfortable building and deploying to cloud infrastructure, and have experience in at least one infrastructure as code tool and public cloud provider
- Experience developing a platform as a service product
- Experience with some of the following technologies:
- Infrastructure as code automation tooling like Terraform
- Deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes with Helm
- Docker and/or Nix for building images and packages
- Building infrastructure scripts and CLI tools using bash, Go or a similar language
What the job involves
- As an Infrastructure Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard, you will be expected to:
- Work as part of small, cross functional XP team building infrastructure as code for our product teams to build and release Imogen, our Generative AI platform
- Pair program with other engineers and collaborate closely with other roles such as product managers and designers
- Work with client infrastructure, security, and network teams to deploy Imogen to their cloud infrastructure
- Lead and collaborate on technical discovery efforts for existing customer systems cloud infrastructure and adapt Imogen to their public cloud estate
- Apply and evolve XP engineering practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Adapt XP practices for working with AI—whether co-writing code, managing agents and their context, or knowing when to push back and trust your own instincts
- Operate and support production applications as a team in the context of the agile DevSecOps model
- Help onboard client developers and/or new Mechanical Orchard team members with practices and techniques
- Continuously learn about relevant emerging technologies or practices and foster the growth of the organization through mentorship, tech talks, and other means
- Participate in a “follow the sun” on-call rotation for incident response and management of cloud infrastructure
Our take
Overhauling existing systems can be a massive undertaking, especially for larger businesses, and especially when these systems manage business-critical functions. That said, it has become a vital move in order to respond to the more fast-paced markets of today, enabling legacy companies to keep a competitive edge.
Mechanical Orchard is a company leveraging AI to replicate, test, evolve and manage critical systems in the cloud. Essentially, its approach means businesses can modernize their legacy systems more quickly and safely by ensuring critical systems stay online throughout the process of moving to the cloud, and giving visibility into the effects of any changes.
The company held two funding rounds in 2024, securing $24M at the start of the year and another $50M at the end. Thi simpressive funding is going towards R&D as well as support the development of a global sales and marketing program. It already served large customers, including logistics giant Omni Logistics and as digital transformation only continues to accelerate, Mechanical Orchard should benefit from increasing enterprise demand.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Feb 2024
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $81m
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rob Mee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Rob is also the CEO at Geometer. Previously worked at Pivotal Software for nearly 7 years, ultimately as CEO, and also served as CEO at Pivotal Labs for 24 years.
Matthew Work
(Co-Founder & COO)Former VP of Strategy (Cognizant Accelerator/S&T) at Cognizant. Previously CRO at Alta Motors, Board Member at Catalyst Repository Systems, and CEO at Quick Left.
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