Software Engineer, DevOps

The Role

As a Software Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products through a combination of automated and manual testing methodologies. This is a high impact role that will work closely with SPAN’s internal Software, Device Software, Hardware Engineering, Systems, and QA teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Automation, you will be expected to:

• Co-design test automation infrastructure with Systems and Test Infrastructure. Automation provides the platform and drivers; partner teams write the tests.
• Diagnose automated test failures across firmware, hardware, and test infrastructure.
• Help manage and grow a fleet of 50+ hardware test rigs across offices.
• Monitor hardware and software infrastructure health.

You will take architectural ownership of one or more of the team's critical systems. Examples of where you might focus:

• Hardware-in-the-loop test execution: on-premise orchestration of test sequences on physical hardware, integrated into CI/CD for PR gating and release qualification.
• Test data pipeline: telemetry ingestion from rigs, structured storage in Postgre
  
  SQL, reporting dashboards for release readiness and reliability.
• Test execution framework: instrument driver library, sequence engine, and the gRPC services that tie rigs together.

• Demonstrable proficiency building reliable tools and services in Python.
• Able to read and reason about C++, Rust, Type Script, or similar. Not your daily language, but enough to follow a bug across a boundary.
• Experience with hardware‑adjacent software: software that controls, monitors, or ingests data from physical devices or instruments.
• Experience owning internal platform infrastructure where your users are other engineers and your systems are in the critical path.
• Comfortable standing up new tooling from scratch and retiring it when needs change.
• Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure, particularly pipelines that run on physical hardware.

• Experience working in a startup environment.
• Experience working in the renewable energy industry.
• Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management for physical infrastructure.
• Experience with or preference for a rapid or continuous release cadence.

• Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well‑funded, venture‑backed company
• Comprehensive benefits: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage. Parental leave up to twenty four (24) weeks depending on eligibility
• Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit
• Strong focus on team building and company culture:
  Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch, and learns
• Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off