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The systems you build will define how the company ships software for years. You'll work across the stack: infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, secure connectivity, observability, edge fleet management, and developer experience. Because we deploy on-prem to security-sensitive customers, you'll care as much about hardened, self-contained deployments as you do about speed. You'll move fast where it matters and build things to last where it counts.\nWhat You'll Work On\nCloud infrastructure: AWS or GCP foundations, networking, security, IAM, cost controls.\n\nSecure networking: VPNs, certificate and PKI management, TLS, and hardened connectivity between cloud, operators, and robots in the field.\n\nCI/CD pipelines: fast, reliable, repeatable builds and deploys for both cloud services and on-robot software.\n\nContainer orchestration and runtime: Kubernetes and lightweight distributions (K3s) for edge and on-prem, image build pipelines, secrets management.\n\nEdge and fleet management: OTA updates, configuration management, telemetry, secure connectivity to robots in the field.\n\nObservability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across cloud and edge (Grafana, Prometheus, and similar).\n\nDeveloper experience: local environments, testing infrastructure, internal tooling that removes friction for the rest of the team.\n\nSecurity and compliance: baseline hardening, secrets, audit trails, and the foundations needed for enterprise and government customer trust.\n\nWho We're Looking For\nWe're looking for a senior infrastructure engineer who has built cloud infrastructure at startup scale, knows when to keep things simple and when to invest in durable foundations. 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