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Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems that increase the speed and capacity of buildout, starting with data centers.\nAbout the Role\nAt Watney, infrastructure engineers keep a fleet of robots in the field connected and safe to change. The robots do production work at customer sites and stream real-time video from their cameras. The same infrastructure carries that video and data to our ML team and the rest of engineering.\nChanging software on robots that are doing real work, over customer networks we do not control, is a problem the field has not settled: how a change reaches the fleet safely, and how video and data keep moving when a network fails.\nOur software engineers run this infrastructure today alongside the robot software. You will partner with them, own it full time, and decide what a safe release looks like. Every robot in the field depends on that answer. At Staff, you lead the infrastructure changes that cross teams.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn networking, remote access, and the real-time video pipelines for the fleet.\n\nOwn CI, observability, and alerting for the fleet and the services behind it.\n\nBuild the release gate and rollout process for the fleet, and own the bar a change must clear.\n\nDecide where data lives, how it is kept, and what our infrastructure costs to run.\n\nLead infrastructure changes with the software engineers who run this infrastructure today, and across the ML and fleet operations teams who depend on it.\n\nYou May Be a Good Fit If You:\nHave led an infrastructure change across several teams, or founded the team that owns one.\n\nHave owned production networking or edge traffic for a large system.\n\nHave migrated a large system in stages, through breaking changes, without breaking its users.\n\nHave owned observability and alerting for a production system.\n\nHave built tooling that other engineers rely on every day.\n\nWe’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team. At Watney Robotics, we welcome people of all backgrounds and identities, and we make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential. 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