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Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.\nRole at a Glance\nGecko is building the unified knowledge system industrial facilities have always lacked: a continuously evolving facility context graph that connects every dimension of asset intelligence. At the center of this system is Rolodex, our central data platform and the flexible technical backbone powering the company.\nAs part of the Software Platform team, your mission is to accelerate how Gecko ships world-class products by advancing our foundational cloud infrastructure. We’re looking for an ambitious engineer to lead the next evolution of Rolodex, expanding its architecture and capabilities to support Gecko’s growing data needs. In this role, you’ll shape the future of a core platform that streamlines infrastructure, reduces operational risk, and enables product and pipeline teams to build and ship faster on top of a robust, scalable context graph.\nWhat you will do\nDrive the Rearchitecture: Lead Rolodex's evolution. Rebuild it for the scale of our context graph, preserving its centralized flexibility while unlocking the full performance of underlying storage technologies (time series, vector, etc.).\n\nEmpower the Graph & Elevate DevEx: Deliver clear ontologies, predictable APIs, and core tooling (SDKs, local dev) that unlock AI agent workflows and eliminate bespoke integrations.\n\nSecure the Foundation: Own the evolution of our centralized permissioning system, transforming a robust security model into an intuitive, frictionless experience for developers.\n\nOptimize Data Performance: Design and optimize query abstractions (indexing, SQL/GraphQL) and smart routing for heavy workloads.\n\nBuild Shared Platforms: Establish productized patterns for cross-cutting data needs like schemas, data modeling, chunked uploads, and pipelines.\n\nAutomate Cloud Infrastructure: Share ownership of Gecko's Cloud footprint. Write Terraform, build self-serve tooling, and systematically eliminate engineering toil through automation.\n\nTechnologies We Use\nBackend: Python\n\nFrontend: React, TypeScript\n\nCloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)\n\nInfrastructure as Code: Terraform\n\nDeveloper Tooling: Agentic coding workflows and AI-assisted development tools\n\nWe use a broad and evolving technology stack, and this list is not exhaustive. 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