Etched
Infrastructure Software Engineer
$150K–$330K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jan 20, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development.
About the job
Build and scale software infrastructure for Etched’s ASIC development, including hybrid HPC orchestration, programmable infrastructure, and observability tooling.
What you'll do
- Design orchestration and control-plane systems for hybrid HPC clusters supporting simulation, synthesis, and CI.
- Build telemetry, tracing, alerting, and synthetic testing systems to monitor and improve infrastructure reliability and performance.
- Develop workload migration and infrastructure tools for on-premise and cloud environments.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, Rust, and C++.
- Expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet; knowledge of PromQL and observability systems.
- Track record debugging hardware-software integration problems across bare-metal systems, networks, and distributed workloads.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Bazel.
- Experience with ASIC development flows, cloud or hybrid deployments, or large-scale telemetry systems.
Pay
$150K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, C++, Linux, SLURM, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Use LLM integration to extract insights from real-time metrics and support observability.
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