Apptronik
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Austin, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering focused on hybrid cloud environments.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Manage and scale the infrastructure platform that supports Apptronik’s robotics software development and releases, with responsibility for reliability, security, and production operations.
What you'll do
- Operate Kubernetes across bare metal, virtual machines, and public cloud; build CI/CD and build infrastructure.
- Design disaster recovery, safe deployment, monitoring, and alerting; debug and resolve production issues across the stack.
- Manage infrastructure as code, strengthen platform security, and partner with robotics teams on architecture and production readiness.
What they ask for
- Deep Linux knowledge and production experience building, upgrading, and debugging Kubernetes clusters.
- Hands-on debugging skills; infrastructure-as-code and GitOps experience using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD.
- Software development skills in Go or Python; networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, VLANs, and BGP.
- Experience defining observability measures, alerts, and SLOs; ability to design for failure and investigate root causes.
Nice to have
- Hybrid infrastructure experience across bare metal, virtualization, storage, and at least one public cloud; CI/CD or build infrastructure at scale.
- Experience with immutable Kubernetes node operating systems, eBPF networking, replicated container registries, disaster recovery, x86_64 and ARM, or robotics, embedded systems, or IoT fleets.
Tools
Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Go, Python, Argo CD, Linux
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