Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Release at Feanix Biotechnologies

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About Feanix Bio Feanix is rebuilding animal breeding from the genome up. We’re a YC-backed startup using whole-genome sequencing and custom ML models to help dairy farmers make better breeding and herd management decisions. Our technology is genuinely novel: we can sequence a full genome from a single hair at a fraction of traditional industry costs, our models achieve ~90% prediction accuracy on traits where existing approaches sit closer to ~30%, and we’re pioneering farm-specific genomic predictions that turn genetics into practical, actionable decisions. That technology is translating into real adoption. In a short time, we’ve grown to serve roughly 1% of the U.S. dairy industry, with many customers in the pipeline. We started with dairy because our founders grew up on dairy farms and understand firsthand the problems we’re solving. But genetics is foundational to every agricultural industry, and dairy is only the beginning. We’re building Feanix with a small, high-caliber team where people have meaningful ownership and work end to end. There are no unnecessary layers and very little room for busywork — just difficult problems at the intersection of biology, data, and software that haven’t been solved before. If you’re exceptional at what you do and want your work to have a measurable impact on an entire industry, we’d love to build it with you. About The Role Feanix’s main product Autopilot is a farm decision system. We ingest farm data, configure our models around each operation's economics and goals, and generate farm-specific decisions for every animal in the herd — which to breed, which to cull, which to sell. Autopilot produces those decisions overnight and delivers them into the herd-management software the farm already runs. Today we work with 30 of the roughly 150 largest dairies in the country, ~250,000+ cows. Over the next 5 months we need to grow to 50 farms, and within 12 months to half of that market, while launching new offerings beyond what we ship today.Most of the software behind that system currently is supported by a small team of engineers. This role exists to increase the stability, efficiency and speed of that team and system. You would lead infrastructure at Feanix — you'd own the foundation the other engineers build on and your success would be measured in their throughput: how fast they learn whether a change is safe, and how fast they find out something didn't run. We've added the basics — observability, testing and release tooling as we've grown. What's missing is someone owning it end to end. The job is the whole delivery ecosystem — everything between an engineer's commit and decisions landing on a farm: the environments a change is proven in, the gates it passes, how it rolls out, and how we know it arrived. Today a change can't be exercised end to end against realistic farm data before it reaches production, which shapes how cautiously (or indeed how riskily) everyone works. The reliability half isn't the usual one, we don't run a low-latency service, we run pipelines overnight, so what matters is whether a run started, finished, finished in time, and landed on the farm. What You'll Own Roughly half this role is CI, test and release engineering; a quarter is observability; a quarter is access control, cost, and consolidating our infrastructure as code. Work on a Windows fleet is a small slice. Alerting and service-level objectives for the farm pipeline. What “decisions on the farm by time T” means per herd, instrumented and alerted. A run that never started, never finished, or finished late should reach a person before anyone on the farm notices. The release path. Building out a path where staging runs on every commit and software engineers get quick feedback if the change was right. Infrastructure as code, end to end. Agentic coding has not eliminated infrastructure as code, it has enhanced the speed it can be developed and changed. Cost. There's a rough baseline today. You'd turn it into