Senior DevOps Engineer

Cyngn; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

401(k) plan

Flexible vacation policy

Sabbatical leave after five years

Paid parental leave

Daily lunches for in-office employees

Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

Job summary

Cyngn, based in California, is seeking a Senior DevOps Lead to manage and optimize cloud and vehicle infrastructure. In this role, you’ll architect scalable solutions, establish DevOps best practices, and mentor team members. Your experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code will be crucial for our autonomous systems.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years in DevOps, a proven leadership track record, and strong programming skills. Enjoy perks like flexible vacations and health benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant DevOps/Infrastructure experience.
• Proven track record as a technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS.
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor team members and foster a developer-friendly environment.

Skills

AWS services

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Kubernetes

Service mesh (Istio)

Python

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Ansible

ROS/ROS2

Linux kernel configurations

Shell scripting

Job description

About Cyngn

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly‑traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self‑driving industrial vehicles — specifically autonomous tuggers — to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America. To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced leaders to join us and move this field forward. If you like to build, tinker, and create with a team of trusted and passionate colleagues, then Cyngn is the place for you.

• We are small and big. We operate with the energy of a startup while being publicly traded.
• Our autonomous vehicles aren’t just test concepts—they’re deployed to real clients right now.
• We’re a welcoming, diverse team where collaboration and trust drive our creative environment.

About This Role

As a Senior DevOps Lead at Cyngn, you will play a vital role in architecting and managing infrastructure across cloud and autonomous vehicle systems.

What You Will Do In This Role

• Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux environments
• Design and implement scalable solutions for both cloud services and autonomous vehicle systems
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
• Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response strategies
• Optimize performance and cost efficiency of cloud and edge computing resources
• Mentor team members and foster a developer‑friendly environment
• Manage on‑call rotations and incident response processes
• Architect solutions for processing and storing large‑scale vehicle telemetry data
• Lead security initiatives and compliance efforts across infrastructure
• Optimize system performance for real‑time processing of high‑bandwidth sensor data
• Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture and integration procedures

Who You Are

• 10+ years of relevant DevOps/Infrastructure experience
• Proven track record as a technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams
• Advanced expertise in AWS services, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and Kubernetes
• Strong experience with service mesh (Istio) and Helm/Kustomize
• Deep understanding of ROS/ROS2 and Linux kernel configurations
• Experience with GPU configurations and ML infrastructure
• Expertise in ARM and NVIDIA CUDA platform configurations
• Strong programming skills in Python and shell scripting
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible)
• Expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Strong system architecture and design skills
• Excellent technical documentation writing
• Outstanding problem‑solving abilities
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities

Nice to haves

• Experience with autonomous vehicle systems
• Track record of optimizing GPU‑based ML infrastructure
• Experience with large‑scale IoT deployments
• Contributions to open‑source projects
• Experience with real‑time systems and low‑latency requirements
• Expertise in security implementations including SSO, IdP, and AWS Cognito
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory and container registry management
• Proficiency in AWS IoT GreengrassExperience with container resource management on edge devices
• Understanding of CPU affinity and priority scheduling
• Track record of implementing cost optimization strategies
• Experience with scaling systems both horizontally and vertically

Benefits & Perks

• Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA and FSA, Employee Assistance Program, 1:1 Health Concierge)
• Life, short‑term, and long‑term disability insurance (Cyngn funds 100% of premiums)
• Company 401(k)
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible vacation policy
• Sabbatical leave opportunity after five years with the company
• Paid parental leave
• Daily lunches for in‑office employees
• Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees

$198,000 - $225,000 a year for Bay Area residents. We are still accepting remote applicants.