Development Engineer, Facility Software Automation

About the role

The Facility Software Automation Team at Fluidstack is responsible for the infrastructure underpinning the telemetry and observability layer of the platform. This includes owning and managing containerization workflows and CI/CD pipelines for telemetry services, ensuring deployments are fast, safe, and repeatable without manual intervention. The team also drives infrastructure-as-code standards and builds observability stacks from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure underpinning the Facility Software Automation platform: cluster architecture, deployment configuration, and the operational reliability of every service in the stack.
• Own and manage containerization workflows and CI/CD pipelines for telemetry services, making deployments from commit to live in production fast, safe, and repeatable without manual intervention.
• Own the observability layer, Prometheus, alerting, and dashboards, that gives the platform team and Fluidstack operations the signal to catch problems in telemetry pipelines before they hit downstream teams.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code standards across the platform so every environment change is version-controlled, reviewed, and auditable at the pace of a team shipping continuously.
• Build and operate observability stacks from scratch (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and ensure the reliability of telemetry data, which is crucial for the automation that delivers compute to customers.
• Work directly with engineers to take new telemetry services from first commit to production-ready deployment, setting the bar for what production-ready means on this platform.

Requirements

• You have owned container-based infrastructure in production: designed the architecture, debugged the failure modes that only appear under load, and carried the pager for it.
• You treat telemetry pipeline health and data integrity as non-negotiable, since the automation that delivers compute to customers depends entirely on the reliability of the data flowing underneath it, and you build and operate accordingly.
• You have hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent) and have used them to build deployment workflows that engineering teams depend on without thinking about it.
• You have built CI/CD pipelines that engineers actually trust, where a merged PR reaches production safely without anyone watching over it, and you understand modern development workflows well enough to build them from scratch.
• You drive infrastructure-as-code as a functioning discipline: every environment change is version-controlled, reviewed, and auditable, and you hold the platform to that standard.
• You have built observability stacks from scratch (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and you know the difference between a dashboard that looks good and one that actually catches problems before they become incidents.
• You have worked in environments where reliability matters because real operational decisions depend on the data flowing correctly, not just internal tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in container-based infrastructure management and telemetry systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or similar.
• Strong understanding of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with GitOps deployment tools (ArgoCD, Flux, etc.) and familiarity with NATS and ClickHouse.
• Experience deploying and operating services at scale across distributed sites.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of observability tools and their implementation.
• Experience with GitOps deployment tools and distributed systems.
• Experience with NATS and ClickHouse.
• Experience deploying and operating services at scale across distributed sites.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation range: $200K - $250K per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Offers equity in the form of stock options.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Pay

$250,000 - $300,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Full-time position.