Job Summary:
Contoro Robotics is an Austin-based startup revolutionizing warehouse automation with AI-powered robotic solutions tackling real industrial challenges. The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and harden their Cloud Platform infrastructure, ensuring real-time robot operation and system monitoring. This role involves leading the migration of services to cloud infrastructure, optimizing GPU resources, and promoting best practices in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and maintain three foundational pillars of our infrastructure: Web Services: AWS-hosted and on-premise deployments, Fleet Network: Secure, scalable data communication with the robots, CI/CD Pipelines: Fast and reliable build/test/deploy automation
• Lead the migration of key services to cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Design and maintain secure user access, containerized services, and cloud-native integrations
• Optimize uptime and performance of GPU clusters for real-time and batch AI model training
• Build and scale secure remote-access networking for robot fleet management
• Track and improve KPIs around build speed, service uptime, and deployment cadence
• Ensure infrastructure performance stays within defined budget constraints
• Promote software development best practices, including automation, versioning, and test coverage
• Collaborate closely with software, hardware, and AI teams to integrate infrastructure into the product lifecycle
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, Terraform, and Python
• Prior ownership or leadership of production infrastructure projects
• Solid knowledge of AWS services (IAM, S3, EC2, ECR, VPC, etc.)
• Proficient with Docker, Docker Compose, and Terraform
• Experience with messaging and communication protocols (e.g., Kafka, MQTT, WebSockets)
• Deep knowledge of scalable data stores (SQL, Redis, Timeseries, etc) and retention policies
• Passion for CI/CD workflows and automated testing pipelines
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and curiosity
• Excellent communication skills—both verbal and written
• Ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams
• Minimum B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
• Willingness to work on-site at our Austin, TX headquarters
Preferred:
• Experience managing GPU clusters or distributed compute environments
• Exposure to robot fleet orchestration or IoT deployment strategies
• Familiarity with 5G hardware, VPN technologies, and network configuration
• Familiarity with cloud-native observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
Company:
Contoro Robotics is a robotics startup that combines artificial intelligence and human intelligence with teleoperation. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Austin, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.