# Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Altara

- Company: Altara
- What the company does: Make better products with higher yield using specialized agents for mission critical R&D and manufacturing challenges. Backed by Greylock.
- Company website: https://www.altara.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-20
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDqB6S61MR3u-MiBbzCqg8VE
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altara-software-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

We’re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world , to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We’re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&D through manufacturing.

## What they're looking for

- Operating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
- Delivering on-prem or customer-hosted software
- Strong Linux, networking and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals
- Independently owning incidents and communicating with customers
- Working with the following key technologies: Public cloud/AWS etc, Managed Kubernetes knowledge, IaC tools like Terraform
- GitOps/Argo CD, Linux, networking, IAM and observability tooling