IT Infrastructure Engineer — Redwood City, CA

Location: Hybrid onsite in Belmont

Employees: <50

Industry: Wireless services

Position Reporting To: CTO

Dynamic Bay Area startup is seeking a Senior IT & Infrastructure Engineer who will be the engineer keeping the engineering organization running, owning the compute infrastructure, CI/CD systems, monitoring, lab equipment, and internal IT services that engineering depends on every day. This person will be hands-on across Linux administration, build pipelines, virtualization, AWS, lab operations, and tier-1 support, and partner closely with a DevOps counterpart in an overseas office on shared infrastructure standards. This is a broad, hands-on role for someone energized by being the person engineers come to when things need to work.

Most Important Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Operations

• Manage compute infrastructure, including on-site lab equipment (Linux hosts, Jenkins servers, lab gear) and cloud resources.

• Administer Linux hosts across the engineering environment, including SaltStack based configuration management and NFS.

• Create and operate virtualized resources including Docker containers and KVM hosts.

• Maintain backup and disaster recovery systems for managed Linux hosts.

• Support core engineering SaaS tools (1Passwrod, GitHub, GitLab, Cursor, etc).

• Provide operational support for robotics setup, including integration or robotic testing and test results into engineering workflows.

CI/CD & Build Systems

• Design, build, and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, targeting firmware and system image artifacts.

• Enforce code quality through integrated linting, static analysis, and test execution at pipeline quality gates.

• Extend build automation to support hardware-in-the-loop testing, bringing physical device testing into eh CI process.

Monitoring & Observability

• Own the organization’s Grafana-based observability stack end-to-end, including metrics ingestion, dashboards, data retention,, and alert routing.

• Develop and maintain alerting coverage for infrastructure health scenarios such as power source changes, UPS-triggered shutdowns, storage capacity thresholds, and hardware faults.

Cloud Operations

• Administer the organization’s AWS environment at an org level, including account provisioning, routine security reviews, and spend reporting.

Internal IT & Helpdesk

• Act as the primary internal IT resource for the engineering team, handling hardware, software, and access issues.

• Own onboarding workflows including account provisioning and workstation configuration.

• Liaise with third-part vendors and external IT partners on compliance initiatives, procurement, and IT-adjacent projects.

What you can bring to the table to impact this role, team, and organization:

• 5+ years in a hands-on IT, systems administration, DevOps, or infrastructure role with ownership across both engineering and IT systems.

• Deep Linux administration experience including Bash scripting and configuration management (SaltStack, Ansible, or equivalent).

• Solid hands-on experience with Docker and KVM-based virtualization.

• Demonstrated experi4nece building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins with integrated testing and artifact management.

• Production experience running and maintaining Grafana observability stacks.

• Comfort administering AWS at an organizational level, including security posture and cost visibility.

• A service-oriented approach to supporting a technical engineering team.

• Ability to work on-site in the Bay Area a minimum of 3 days per week.

Nice To Have Experience

• Experience managing external vendor relationships and navigating compliance or audit processes.

• Background working in regulated or security-conscious engineering environments.

• Prior experience in a fast-paced startup or early-stage company

• Experience supporting embedded or firmware engineering teams with HITL pipeline integration.

• Familiarity with wireless or cellular networking technologies at a practical level.

• Hands-on experience with physical lab environment, test rigs, or robotic test systems.

• Background with Elasticsearch, particularly in a maintenance, mitigation, or depreciation context.

Featured Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental, Stock Options

Compensation: $150 - $190K + Stock Options