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Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.\nWe operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.\nJOB SUMMARY\nApptronik builds humanoid robots. Our engineers depend on infrastructure we run ourselves: Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and in the public cloud, plus the CI/CD and observability systems behind every robot software release.\nAs a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will manage and scale the Devops platform. Your job is to make it more resilient, faster to build on and safer to change as the robot fleet and the engineering team grow. You own your work end to end, from architecture decisions down to the Linux kernel, the network and the disk when something misbehaves. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who builds systems that are reliable by design and keeps digging until they understand why something broke.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nManage and scale our Kubernetes platform on bare metal, virtual machines and public cloud, including cluster provisioning, networking, storage and upgrades.\nBuild the CI/CD infrastructure our robotics engineers ship with: build runners, remote build execution and caching, container registries, and autoscaling that adds capacity on-prem or in the cloud as demand changes.\nDesign for failure: backups, multi-site recovery, and recovery drills that prove the company keeps working when a data center goes down.\nMake change safe with GitOps delivery, progressive rollouts, and automatic rollback when a release fails its health checks.\nDecide what to measure. Define SLIs and SLOs for the platform, and build the monitoring and alerting around them.\nDebug production issues across the stack, from Kubernetes down to the Linux kernel, the network and the disk, and fix the root cause so they do not come back.\nManage infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Helm and Ansible, and write tooling in Go or Python to remove manual work.\nBuild security into the platform: single sign-on and role-based access, certificate and secret management, and minimal, patched operating systems.\nPartner with robotics software teams on architecture and production readiness, and set the standards other teams build on.\nPlan capacity and cost across on-prem and cloud as the robot fleet and the engineering team grow.\nSKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS\nLinux: deep knowledge of operating system internals, the networking stack, file systems, process and resource management, and performance tuning.\nKubernetes in production: you have built clusters, upgraded them, and debugged them when networking, storage or scheduling broke.\nHands-on debugging: you work in a shell and reach for tools such as strace, tcpdump, ss and perf.\nInfrastructure as code and GitOps with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Argo CD.\nSoftware skills in Go or Python. You build tools and services, not only scripts.\nNetworking: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, VLANs and BGP.\nObservability: you know what to measure, how to alert on it, and how to set SLOs.\nYou design for failure, and ask how a system will break before you build it.\nYou keep digging until you can explain the root cause, and you stay clear-headed during an outage.\nYou prioritize well, work independently, and finish what you start.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nHybrid infrastructure: on-prem bare metal, virtualization and SAN or NAS storage, and at least one public cloud.\nExperience building and operating CI/CD and build infrastructure at scale, such as remote build execution and caching, container build optimization and runner autoscaling.\nExperience with immutable, API-managed operating systems for Kubernetes nodes, and with eBPF-based networking.\nExperience operating container registries with replication and caching across sites.\nExperience planning disaster recovery and running recovery drills.\nExperience running infrastructure on both x86_64 and ARM.\nExperience with infrastructure for robotics, embedded systems or IoT device fleets.\nEDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with a focus on hybrid cloud environments.\nA record of building infrastructure from scratch and running it reliably in production.\nPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nProlonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.\nMust be able to lift 15 pounds at times.\nVision to read printed materials and a computer screen.\nHearing and speech to communicate.\n*This is a direct hire. 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