Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Watney • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems to address labor shortages, hazardous working conditions, and operational complexity in critical infrastructure, starting with data centers. Infrastructure engineers keep the robot fleet connected and safe to change. The robots perform production work at customer sites and stream real-time video from their cameras; fleet infrastructure carries that video and other data to the machine-learning team and the rest of engineering. The infrastructure must support safe software changes on working robots over customer networks that Watney does not control, while maintaining video and data flow when networks fail.

The software engineering team currently operates this infrastructure alongside robot software. The Staff Software Engineer will partner with that team, take full-time ownership of the infrastructure, and define what constitutes a safe release. At Staff level, this role leads infrastructure changes that cross teams.

Requirements

• Have led an infrastructure change across several teams, or founded the team that owns one.
• Have owned production networking or edge traffic for a large system.
• Have migrated a large system in stages through breaking changes without disrupting its users.
• Have owned observability and alerting for a production system.
• Have built tooling that other engineers rely on every day.

Responsibilities

• Own fleet networking, remote access, and real-time video pipelines.
• Own CI, observability, and alerting for the fleet and the services behind it.
• Build the fleet release gate and rollout process, and define the standards a change must meet.
• Decide where data lives, how it is retained, and what the infrastructure costs to run.
• Lead infrastructure changes with the software engineers who currently operate the infrastructure and with the ML and fleet operations teams that depend on it.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed