DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer your mission is to make our software engineers faster. Every minute a developer waits on a build fights with a flaky pipeline or hand-rolls a deployment is a minute not spent shipping robots. You will own the CI/CD systems build infrastructure and developer-facing platforms that determine how quickly the rest of the company can move from idea to running code. The work spans on-prem and cloud and your impact is measured in build times deployment frequency and the number of problems developers no longer have to think about. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Improve developer experience end-to-end — faster builds cleaner release flows better self-service — and drive down toil with code rather than runbooks.
• Own the CI/CD systems used by every software team in the company from build triggers through artifact distribution.
• Responsible for driving the company’s strategy for the release packaging and distribution of robot software.
• Build and maintain the tooling templates and self-service workflows that let software teams ship without needing to understand the infrastructure underneath.
• Partner with adjacent teams (security embedded ML) as their needs touch shared infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call for shared infrastructure and help shape the team's reliability practices as we scale.

• Strong Linux fundamentals and confidence working at the systems level — networking storage processes.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Helm or similar).
• Hands-on experience with at least one major CI system (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Buildkite CircleCI Bitbucket Pipelines etc.) and an understanding of the build and cache layers underneath.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS GCP or Azure).
• Fluent in Python and Bash; comfortable writing the small tools and glue code that infrastructure work demands.
• A GitOps mindset — version-controlled reviewable reproducible infrastructure changes.
• Strong written communication and a bias toward documenting decisions so they outlast the conversation that produced them.

Preferred (Nice to Have):

• Experience running infrastructure on a mix of on-prem and cloud and an understanding of when each is the right tool.
• Familiarity with build systems used in C++ or robotics codebases (Bazel CMake).
• Background in hardware-heavy or robotics environments — release engineering for embedded targets ARM cross-compilation or fleet rollout patterns.
• Experience with the open-source observability stack (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry VictoriaMetrics).
• Experience operating self-hosted infrastructure services (container registries artifact stores distributed object storage).

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years operating production infrastructure for a software engineering organization with meaningful ownership of CI/CD or platform work.
• A proven track record of accelerating software development teams by building reliable infrastructure and effective tooling.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift 25-45 pounds at times
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
• Hearing and speech to communicate
• International travel likely; passport highly desired
• Travel up to 50% may be required

What We Do

Apptronik is building robots for the real world to improve human quality of life and to help solve the ever-increasing labor shortage problem. Our team has been building some of the most advanced robots on the planet for years dating back to the DARPA Robotics Challenge. We apply our expertise across the full robotics stack to some of the most important and impactful problems our society faces and expect our products and technology to change the world for the better. We value passion creativity and collaboration to help us overcome existing technological barriers in the industry to create truly innovative products.

Why Work With Us

At Apptronik we don't see a future where man competes against machine. Instead we envision a harmonious world where man and machine coexist. Our mission statement "It is not Man vs. Machine but Man + Machine" encapsulates our belief that the synergy between humans and robots will pave the way for a brighter more advanced future.

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