Feanix
Feanix
Feanix combines agricultural biotechnology and software to help dairy farms make herd and breeding decisions based on each animal’s expected value to the operation. Its Autopilot platform brings together whole-genome sequencing, herd records, milk and feed data, health information, and activity-monitor readings with farm-specific economics. It uses these inputs to rank practical next steps for each cow, from breeding or selling to monitoring or culling, and can sync recommendations with existing farm systems. The company’s stated focus is helping dairies manage replacement numbers, direct semen use, and pursue economic gains using farm-level data rather than broad genetic rankings.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Release

Lead infrastructure, CI, releases, observability, and AWS reliability for Feanix’s genomic farm decision software. Support overnight pipeline delivery to dairy farms.

Description

  • Lead Feanix’s infrastructure and maintain the foundation used by other engineers.
  • Manage delivery from an engineer’s commit through decisions reaching a farm.
  • Create alerting and service-level objectives for overnight farm pipelines.
  • Develop a release process that runs staging on every commit and gives engineers rapid feedback.
  • Manage infrastructure as code across the full lifecycle.
  • Set and track cost baselines per herd, reduce waste, and help forecast costs before deployment.
  • Create test infrastructure for third-party herd software and machines that transfer files to and from farms.
  • Support infrastructure built with Python, AWS, FastAPI, Celery, ECS Fargate, PostgreSQL, S3, OpenTofu, and GitHub Actions.
  • Join the weekly on-call and triage rotation.
  • Travel 15–20%, including visits to commercial dairies and Feanix headquarters.

Requirements

  • Bring strong OpenTofu or Terraform skills and deep AWS experience, including ECS/Fargate, IAM, S3, and networking.
  • Have experience designing CI, building test environments with real databases, using staged rollouts, and regression-testing pipeline outputs.
  • Apply sound operational judgment to alerting and service objectives.
  • Be comfortable working with heterogeneous compute.
  • Demonstrate strong Python skills.
  • Have experience with GitHub Actions and OIDC.
  • Understand security fundamentals.
  • Use coding agents regularly in consequential work and have a clear view of their limitations.
  • Be authorized to work in the United States.
  • Visa sponsorship and transfers are unavailable.
  • Preferred: experience supporting a small team through rapid growth.
  • Preferred: experience managing fleets of software on machines outside your control.
  • Preferred: experience with SOC 2 or similar compliance readiness.
  • Agriculture or biology experience is not required.

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Pet insurance
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Paid parental leave, including up to twelve weeks of paid leave and/or coordination of supplemental pay with applicable state benefits
  • Equity options
  • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and interview process

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