Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Overland AI•Seattle, WA

23h

About The Position

Overland AI is building off-road autonomy, and its software infrastructure supports teams in moving quickly, experimenting safely, and delivering mission-critical systems. The Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer will design and build internal platforms, libraries, and tools that improve engineering speed and reliability. The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, and platform tooling, contributing shared libraries, service frameworks, and internal tools for AI, robotics, and backend systems. The engineer will help establish rigor in observability, security, CI/CD, and service deployment, and contribute to DevOps, infrastructure as code, compliance, and infrastructure initiatives across the organization. The work spans physical infrastructure and cloud platforms, DevSecOps, SRE, field deployments, and software engineering, requiring collaboration across traditional role boundaries. This position is based in Seattle, Washington.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related disciplines.
Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or similar programming languages.
Experience building production software, reusable libraries, and internal tooling.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of backend systems, including databases, distributed systems, observability, and service-oriented architectures.
Experience implementing logging, metrics, and tracing solutions using DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices.
Experience in compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or NIST frameworks.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams and operate as a technical generalist.

Responsibilities

Design and develop shared libraries, SDKs, and frameworks for logging, telemetry, database access, authentication, and service communication.
Build internal tooling, utilities, and automation to improve developer productivity, software quality, and operational excellence.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and engineering workflows in partnership with software and infrastructure teams.
Partner with software, infrastructure, and robotics teams to establish common patterns and best practices for building, deploying, and operating services.
Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud-native systems and platform capabilities across AWS, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments.
Mentor engineers and help drive technical direction for shared software platforms, developer tooling, and engineering standards.