Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Release

Feanix Biotechnologies develops farm-specific breeding and herd-management software for dairy farms. The Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Release will own and improve the infrastructure and delivery ecosystem, including release engineering, observability, testing, access control, and cost management, to help the engineering team ship reliably and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Alerting and service-level objectives for the farm pipeline. What “decisions on the farm by time T” means per herd, instrumented and alerted. A run that never started, never finished, or finished late should reach a person before anyone on the farm notices
• The release path. Building out a path where staging runs on every commit and software engineers get quick feedback if the change was right
• Infrastructure as code, end to end. Agentic coding has not eliminated infrastructure as code, it has enhanced the speed it can be developed and changed
• Cost. There's a rough baseline today. You'd turn it into a real one, own the cost curve per herd, act on obvious waste, and help engineers estimate what something will cost before it ships rather than after
• Test infrastructure other engineers depend on, including for the third-party herd software and the machines that move files to and from farms. You'd make that boundary testable. You wouldn't own the automation itself

Requirements:

• Strong OpenTofu or Terraform, and real AWS depth — ECS/Fargate, IAM, S3, networking
• Test and release engineering: CI design, test environments with real databases, staged rollouts, and regression testing of pipeline outputs, not only unit tests
• Operational judgment — alerting that pages on the right thing, service objectives that reflect what a customer actually experiences
• Comfort with heterogeneous compute, without needing to unify it
• Strong Python; GitHub Actions and OIDC
• Security fundamentals and the judgment to apply them proportionately at this stage
• Daily, load-bearing use of coding agents, and a real position on where they break down
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfers at this time
• You've likely held a title like infrastructure engineer, release engineer, SRE, or ops
• that you think creatively about how agents are changing this job
• that you're motivated by supporting other people through your own technical work
• Having supported a small team through a period of rapid growth
• Fleet management for software running on machines you don't control
• Compliance readiness (SOC 2 or similar) — useful, not expected
• an interest [in agriculture or biology] doesn't hurt
• West-coast based candidates preferred!