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title: 'Automation & Tools Engineer at Alembic'
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# Automation & Tools Engineer at Alembic

- **Company:** Alembic
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $185k–$205k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alembic/f594f2ad-2f27-4a1f-92f3-3a30829fd247

## Job description

## About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Automation and Tools Engineer to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our core platform—including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems. This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations.

## Key Responsibilities

- Work closely with SREs and developers to automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure, with a focus on build and deployment systems, as well as configuration management
- Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning
- Create and configure tools for datacenter provisioning, configuration management, observability using standard and custom tools
- Improve developer experience by providing tools for self-service
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes (SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations)
- Collaborate across engineering and data science teams to drive a culture of performance and reliability
- Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across our physical and cloud infrastructure
- Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives

Must-Have Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in Tools development, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
- Good programming skills with IaC (infrastructure as code) languages such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize
- Good programming skills with general-purpose languages such as Python or Go
- Deep experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

Nice-to-Have

- Familiarity with build configuration tools, software dependency management and C++
- Experience with datacenter automation such as system imaging and configuration management
- Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
- Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
- Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments

## What You’ll Get

- Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure in a company solving real-world enterprise problems
- A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture
- The ability to influence how our platform scales—from deployment to incident management
- An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact

## About Alembic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alembic provides a real-time Causal AI platform that enables enterprises to measure, simulate, and optimize the true incremental impact of marketing investments on revenue.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Marketing analytics / Enterprise AI / Causal inference software
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500 enterprises, large B2C brands, and sophisticated marketing organizations
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make blind, guess-based analysis obsolete by helping global enterprises act with clarity and confidence in the intelligence era.

## Products & Services
- **Alembic Causal AI Platform (3.0)**: A SaaS platform that continuously recomputes large-scale causal graphs across billions of signals (media exposure, pricing, macroeconomics, consumer behavior, operational inputs). Enables real-time budget simulation, marginal ROI analysis, incremental lift measurement, and scenario testing without batch processing.
- **Marketing Measurement & Attribution**: Replaces traditional MMM, MTA, and dashboards with dollar-for-dollar attribution across the full marketing funnel, isolating true causal impact per channel and tactic.
- **Enterprise Intelligence**: Extends causal inference beyond marketing to areas like pricing, sponsorship evaluation, and go-to-market strategy for cross-functional decision-making.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $645 million (as of March 2026, per Techmeme)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $145M Series B led by Prysm Capital and Accenture (March 2026); prior rounds include $16M Series A (WndrCo-led) and $2.6M Seed (KB Partners-led). Total disclosed funding approximately $128M–$145M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Prysm Capital, Accenture, NextEquity, WndrCo, SLW, KB Partners. NVIDIA is the founding enterprise customer and exclusive supercomputing partner (first Causal AI company to secure NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 76.6% year-over-year (to ~57 employees). Active job postings for engineering and applied AI roles. Multiple Fortune 500 clients (e.g., major airline, B2B tech firm) with measurable pipeline and revenue impact.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Causal AI vs. correlation**: Models cause-and-effect at scale, not just patterns; can simulate downstream impact of strategic decisions in real time.
- **Real-time graph architecture**: Continuously recomputes causal graphs instead of running batch reports, giving live views of incremental revenue drivers.
- **NVIDIA partnership**: Exclusive access to DGX NVL72 supercomputing infrastructure for enterprise decision-making, creating a hardware/software moat.
- **Proven enterprise traction**: Demonstrated pipeline growth of 37% for a Fortune 500 B2B client and precise sponsorship measurement for a major airline.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities and direction for growth**: Expand causal AI applications beyond marketing into broader enterprise intelligence (pricing, operations, strategy). Scale platform adoption with Fortune 500 companies and deepen integrations with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure. Continue hiring top AI research and engineering talent to advance causal inference capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include “embrace curiosity,” “be data driven,” “build stuff & ship it,” “maintain low egos,” “don’t blame, solve,” “everyone teaches,” and “brevity is strength.” Emphasis on experimentation, cross-department learning, and shipping without overanalysis.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-person at San Francisco HQ (all open positions listed as “In Person Full Time”).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Work on frontier Causal AI models with access to NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. Opportunity to solve complex, high-impact problems for Fortune 500 clients. Flat, low-ego environment with a focus on shipping and data-driven decisions. Active open roles: Research Engineer – Causal AI, Senior Applied AI Engineer, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Patent Counsel, Senior Field Scientist.

## Sources
1. [Alembic Website – Platform Overview](https://alembic.com/)
2. [Alembic – About Us & Culture](https://alembic.com/company)
3. [Alembic – Careers Page](https://alembic.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Alembic Technologies Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getalembic)
5. [Techmeme – Alembic raises $145M Series B at $645M valuation](https://www.techmeme.com/)
6. [Accenture Newsroom – Accenture Invests in Alembic](https://newsroom.accenture.com/)
7. [Alembic – Job Board (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alembic)

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