2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters across bare metal, virtual machines, and public cloud environments, including provisioning, networking, storage, and upgrades.
- Build CI/CD infrastructure with build runners, remote build execution and caching, container registries, and autoscaling.
- Design and test backups, multi-site recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Implement GitOps delivery, progressive rollouts, health checks, and automatic rollback.
- Define platform SLIs and SLOs and build monitoring and alerting systems.
- Debug production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and storage and resolve root causes.
- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, Helm, and Ansible and develop tooling in Go or Python.
- Implement single sign-on, role-based access, certificate and secret management, and patched operating systems.
- Partner with robotics software teams on architecture and production readiness and establish platform standards.
- Plan infrastructure capacity and cost across on-premises and cloud environments.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Linux operating system internals, networking, file systems, process and resource management, and performance tuning.
- Production experience building, upgrading, and debugging Kubernetes clusters.
- Hands-on shell debugging using tools such as strace, tcpdump, ss, and perf.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD.
- Ability to build tools and services in Go or Python.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, VLANs, BGP, observability, alerting, and SLOs.
- Ability to design for failure, investigate root causes, work independently, and remain clear-headed during outages.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering focused on hybrid cloud environments.
- Record of building infrastructure from scratch and operating it reliably in production.
- Preferred experience with hybrid infrastructure, virtualization, SAN or NAS storage, public cloud, CI/CD and build infrastructure, immutable API-managed operating systems, eBPF networking, replicated container registries, disaster recovery, x86_64 and ARM systems, and robotics, embedded systems, or IoT device fleets.
Benefits
- Direct-hire position.
- Physical requirements include prolonged desk and computer work, occasional lifting of up to 15 pounds, and the ability to read computer screens and communicate by hearing and speech.
About Apptronik
Apptronik designs and manufactures AI-enabled humanoid robots, led by its Apollo platform, to automate tasks alongside people in manufacturing and logistics, with potential use in healthcare and homes. The privately held company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and grew out of the University of Texas at Austin’s Human Centered Robotics Lab; its team previously worked on NASA’s Valkyrie robot. Apptronik’s business model centers on selling robots and the software and services needed to deploy them in industrial environments.