Watney
Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 17, 2026
About the job
Own and lead infrastructure that keeps Watney’s field robots connected, safely updated, and streaming video and data to engineering and ML teams.
What you'll do
- Own fleet networking, remote access, real-time video pipelines, CI, observability, and alerting.
- Build and own safe release gates and fleet rollout processes; set the bar changes must meet.
- Lead cross-team infrastructure changes and make decisions about data storage, retention, and infrastructure costs.
What they ask for
- Experience leading an infrastructure change across several teams or founding the team that owns one.
- Experience owning production networking or edge traffic for a large system.
- Experience migrating a large system in stages through breaking changes without disrupting users.
- Experience owning production observability and alerting.
Nice to have
- Built tooling that other engineers rely on every day.
AI focus
Infrastructure carries real-time robot video and data to the ML team; no other AI work is specified.
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