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Geospatial, location-enabled, and satellite imagery data are quickly becoming a critical and valuable source of information and insights to a broad array of industries, from logistics and insurance to financial or climate tech companies. Wherobots helps those companies bring their geospatial data down to earth and drive value from it for their business and their customers through full-featured and scalable computation, querying, analytics, and visualization capabilities.\nAbout the role\nWherobots is looking for a passionate, skilled, and experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help architect, build, and operate the geospatial cloud database of the future, including the cloud platform and control plane that make it secure, reliable, and scalable.\nThis is a DevOps-first role with meaningful security ownership. You will spend most of your time building reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, while also owning core security and compliance operations (including SOC 2 Type 2 cadence). If you can design clean networking, automate everything in Terraform, and keep security practical instead of ceremonial, we should talk.\nWe are 100% cloud-native and build our product using modern, reliable tooling. We use Python, Java, and Golang services deployed on Kubernetes in cloud environments.\nIf you are passionate about building cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and want to be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of geospatial technology, we would love to hear from you. 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Experience with Tailscale/WireGuard-style zero-trust networking is highly desired.\n\nImprove reliability and performance: Continuously monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend infrastructure for uptime, latency, and operational efficiency.\n\nEnable engineering velocity: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver self-service infrastructure and reduce operational friction.\n\nEmbed pragmatic security: Shift security left in CI/CD and IaC workflows with practical controls, guardrails, and automation.\n\nRun security and compliance cadence: Own SOC 2 Type 2 operational rhythms including control execution, access reviews, vulnerability remediation tracking, and evidence collection.\n\nStrengthen incident readiness: Help define and maintain incident response playbooks, and participate in incident investigations and remediation.\n\nRaise the bar: Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, and infrastructure best practices across the organization.\n\nQualifications\n\n5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles in cloud-native SaaS environments.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS and/or GCP).\n\nStrong networking fundamentals and practical production experience with cloud networking and secure connectivity models.\n\nProduction experience with zero-trust/private networking platforms (Tailscale strongly preferred).\n\nProficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.\n\nExperience operating CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent).\n\nPractical security and compliance experience, including SOC 2 or similar frameworks.\n\nStrong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills in distributed teams.\n\nNice to Have (Optional)\n\nExperience integrating security tooling into CI/CD (SAST/DAST, container or dependency scanning)\n\nExperience with centralized logging, threat detection, and incident response workflows\n\nFamiliarity with geospatial data platforms\n\nCompensation and benefits\nWherobots offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits. 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