Job Summary:
Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your mission is to enhance the efficiency of software engineers by owning CI/CD systems and infrastructure, ultimately facilitating the development and deployment of robotic software.
Responsibilities:
• Improve developer experience end-to-end — faster builds, cleaner release flows, better self-service — and drive down toil with code rather than runbooks.
• Own the CI/CD systems used by every software team in the company, from build triggers through artifact distribution.
• Responsible for driving the company's strategy for the release, packaging, and distribution of robot software.
• Build and maintain the tooling, templates, and self-service workflows that let software teams ship without needing to understand the infrastructure underneath.
• Partner with adjacent teams (security, embedded, ML) as their needs touch shared infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call for shared infrastructure and help shape the team's reliability practices as we scale.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong Linux fundamentals and confidence working at the systems level — networking, storage, processes.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with at least one major CI system (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, etc.) and an understanding of the build and cache layers underneath.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Fluent in Python and Bash; comfortable writing the small tools and glue code that infrastructure work demands.
• A GitOps mindset — version-controlled, reviewable, reproducible infrastructure changes.
• Strong written communication and a bias toward documenting decisions so they outlast the conversation that produced them.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years operating production infrastructure for a software engineering organization, with meaningful ownership of CI/CD or platform work.
• A proven track record of accelerating software development teams by building reliable infrastructure and effective tooling.
Preferred:
• Experience running infrastructure on a mix of on-prem and cloud, and an understanding of when each is the right tool.
• Familiarity with build systems used in C++ or robotics codebases (Bazel, CMake).
• Background in hardware-heavy or robotics environments — release engineering for embedded targets, ARM cross-compilation, or fleet rollout patterns.
• Experience with the open-source observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics).
• Experience operating self-hosted infrastructure services (container registries, artifact stores, distributed object storage).
Company:
Apptronik is a robotics company that designs and builds humanoid robots for various real-world applications. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Austin, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.