Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

fab2 is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, deploy, and manage the on-prem backend infrastructure that powers our semiconductor fab. We are an early-stage hardware startup with solid funding, world-class advisors, and a lab/office. The Infrastructure team is the backbone of fab2, building internal tools, databases, deployments, and networking infrastructure that empower our software engineers.

🏢 About fab2

fab2 team can build anything. We design all the hardware and software needed to make chips and we make the fabs, tools, and components ourselves. We're looking for exceptional, hands-on people who can iterate to the limits of what's possible. fab2 was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller. Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years.

🎯 The Role

As an Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, build, deploy, and manage the on-prem backend infrastructure that powers our small, fast semiconductor fab. This is a broad, hands-on role where you will own all aspects of our backend services from the ground up. Our philosophy toward infrastructure is minimal, understandable, and close to the hardware. You won’t find much Docker, cloud services, or Kubernetes here. Instead, you will work primarily with bare-metal Linux, systemd, and single-file binaries written in Rust, Go, and occasionally Python.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement light-weight, performant, and reliable software infrastructure to power a semiconductor fab.
• Procure, deploy and manage our fleet of on-prem servers, virtual machines, and single-board computers running on semiconductor fabrication equipment.
• Deploy and manage backend services, e.g., consul, vault, grafana, victoria-metrics, alertmanager, redpanda, vector, gitea, postgres
• Design and setup low level networking components, e.g., service discovery, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, S3 compatible storage, VPNs
• Scale our observability platform: Build systems to ingest and display both traditional system metrics as well as high frequency telemetry from semiconductor fabrication equipment.
• Design and implement cross-site networking, replication and backups.
• Automate OS image creation and deployment and software build and deployment systems.
• Develop best practices and tools for security, authentication, authorization, and secrets management
• Help build our in-house infrastructure-as-code tool.

📌 Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in backend infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering, successfully and autonomously taking complex systems from concept to production.
• Deep proficiency in at least one statically-typed, compiled language, with a strong command of systems fundamentals.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on programming experience in Rust or Go.
• Direct experience designing and managing on-premise, bare-metal infrastructure without relying on heavy cloud abstractions.

🎁 Benefits

Compensation: fab2 is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The annual salary range for this role is $125,000 – $195,000. Compensation is determined based on your qualifications and experience. Our total compensation package also includes generous equity in fab2.

Benefits: fab2 offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off inclusive of Holidays and Sick Time
• Visa Sponsorship
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Weekly Learning & Development opportunities
• Commuter Benefits including Parking and Late Night Uber rides from the office
• Lunches daily, Dinners 3x per week, Stocked Office Kitchen with Snacks and Spindrifts

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls. fab2 offers Visa Sponsorship.