Infrastructure Engineer

QED ( https://qed.ai ) is a tech company focused on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including surveillance of HIV and malaria, and nutrient analysis of crops and soils, working at national-scale in several African countries. Our funding comes from multiple philanthropic and governmental organizations, including the Global Fund, Gates Foundation, CDC, and USAID.

We are looking for an infrastructure engineer to join our team Your responsibilities would include:

working with declarative tooling (NixOS + k3s + terraform) mostly on top of bare metal servers, with some cloud sprinkled in

planning infrastructure layout, selecting components, testing, and deploying them

designing reusable modules to ease deployment across many environments – our clients often expect their data to stay in their countries

improving dev tooling

maintaining monitoring and alerting

responding to downtimes (+ optional pager duty)

planning and building bare metal infrastructure for deployment in low to middle income countries

optional travel to learn more about problems we're trying to solve and set up hardware in local data centers

Requires a full-time commitment physically based in Warsaw, Poland, with a hybrid of remote and in-person work throughout the week. We expect at least 2-3 days per week in the office. The working hours are flexible, for example you do not need approval to take out a small chunk in the middle of the day to handle some personal business.

Desired skills include:

+4 years of experience

automation / declarative oriented mindset

broad knowledge of technology – including Linux internals, networking, databases, high level hardware performance, containers, performance tuning, security – we value genuine deep interest more than specific trivia knowledge, and you don't have to have experience with all of those areas

strong background in software engineering, version control, writing readable code and tests, robust design, and basic data structures and algorithms

working proficiency (≥C1) in speaking, reading, and typing English (≥45 words per minute)

logical reasoning and ability to express ideas clearly, both orally and written

willingness and interest in working with people from other cultures

emotional resilience and social intelligence

and you have to care about the work that you do

and you have to be optimistic at least sometimes

Below are additional skills that are a bonus, but are not required:

experience with NixOS, Kubernetes, Terraform

experience with bare metal, including hardware selection and on-site setup

ethical hacking experience

experience with programming and/or math competitions

willingness to go on an adventure

domain knowledge and/or interest in the sustainable development goals, particularly in public health, agriculture, and assisting developing countries

What can you expect:

fully declarative infrastructure, strong (but not absolute) avoidance of anything manual

no helm soup

unusual, socially conscious projects

low bureaucracy

significant ownership

ability and encouragement to explore technologies other than your main expertise