Robotics Infra & SRE Engineer

Maven Robotics, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Maven Robotics, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and run the infrastructure powering a fleet of industrial robots.

This generalist role spans DevOps, SRE, and security, with exposure to AWS, on‑prem and edge Kubernetes, CI/CD, and telemetry that informs how everything behaves. As an early member of our small infra team, you’ll own initiatives from concept to execution and drive reliable, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent) in production environments.
• Strong Linux expertise and proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Experience designing and managing observability systems, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to drive data-informed decisions.
• Production experience with containers and Kubernetes, including deployment, networking, storage, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, including threat modeling, least-privilege access, secrets management, and implementing security controls.
• Proven ability to independently solve ambiguous technical challenges, take ownership, and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with strong communication skills and the ability to navigate tradeoffs and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) across AWS and on-prem environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and reproducibility
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions) for robotics software, ML workloads, and platform services
• Design and maintain observability systems (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) to monitor performance, reliability, capacity, and costs
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters across cloud and edge environments, supporting robotic systems and deployments
• Implement security best practices, including secrets management, IAM, mTLS, Linux hardening, and vulnerability scanning
• Define SLOs, lead incident response, and drive continuous improvements through root cause analysis and postmortems
• Automate repetitive tasks, streamline infrastructure operations, and improve engineering efficiency
• Collaborate with robotics, ML, and field engineering teams to solve technical challenges, improve developer experience, and document scalable solutions

Skills

DevOps practices

SRE

Linux scripting (Bash/Python)

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Security best practices

Ownership & problem-solving

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Maven Robotics, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and run the infrastructure powering a fleet of industrial robots.

This generalist role spans DevOps, SRE, and security, with exposure to AWS, on‑prem and edge Kubernetes, CI/CD, and telemetry that informs how everything behaves. As an early member of our small infra team, you’ll own initiatives from concept to execution and drive reliable, scalable solutions.