Senior DevOps Engineer

Navi AI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Point One Navigation is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that keep our real‑time location services running at scale. You will manage cloud, on‑prem, and CI/CD pipelines, with an emphasis on reliability and observability.

You’ll build and operate the infrastructure as code, harden deployment pipelines, and ensure secure, scalable, and cost‑effective operations across regions and customers. Expect ownership and cross‑team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Provision and operate production infrastructure from setup to on-call ownership.
• Ability to decompose goals into actionable tasks with milestones.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
• Containers with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Observability tooling with Prometheus/Grafana.
• Scripting in general-purpose languages is a plus.
• Networking, Linux systems and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure provisioned and managed as code, reproducible and versioned.
• Automate, secure, and accelerate deployments with safe rollouts.
• Operate reliable systems across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Own observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerts, to preempt issues.
• Design for high availability and graceful degradation.
• Support engineering with self-service tooling and clear processes.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Infrastructure as code

On-call ownership

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About Point One Navigation

Point One Navigation is on a mission to bridge the digital and physical worlds through precision location. Our RTK Corrections Network and Positioning Engine deliver centimeter-level accuracy and high-confidence positioning for vehicles, robots, drones, and devices across industries. We’re API‑first, developer‑focused, and pushing the boundaries of autonomy and automation.

Role Outcome

Senior DevOps Engineers own the infrastructure, automation and deployment systems that keep Point One’s services running reliably at scale – from the cloud and on‑premise environments to the CI/CD pipelines and observability stack that the entire engineering team depends on.

This is an ownership‑first role: you will build and operate the infrastructure that serves real‑time corrections to hundreds of thousands of devices in the field, spanning cloud and bare‑metal environments, with the availability and repeatability that mission‑critical positioning demands.

The infrastructure you own is the foundation every other team builds on. This role is responsible for keeping it automated, observable, secure and scalable: provisioning and managing environments as code, hardening deployment pipelines, and ensuring the network stays healthy as new regions, reference stations and customers come online.

Success in this role means:

• Infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed as code – reproducible, version‑controlled and easy to evolve.
• Deployments are automated, safe and fast, giving engineers confidence to ship frequently.
• Services run reliably across all hosted environments, even under load and partial failure.
• Observability is comprehensive – the team catches and resolves issues before customers feel them.
• Infrastructure decisions reflect a deep understanding of real‑world constraints – reliability, scale, security and cost.
• Engineers across the company are unblocked by self‑service tooling, clear processes and well‑maintained environments.

Immediate Areas of Focus

Own Infrastructure as Code

• Provision and manage cloud, on‑premise and bare‑metal infrastructure using Terraform and SaltStack configuration management.
• Build reproducible, version‑controlled environments that are easy to stand up, evolve and tear down.
• Break down high‑level goals into concrete tasks, schedules and milestones, and hold yourself accountable for delivering against them.
• Ensure infrastructure is well‑structured, documented and built to last as the product and customer base grow.

Automate Deployment and Delivery

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) that make shipping fast, safe and repeatable.
• Containerise services with Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes across environments.
• Drive improvements in build, test and release workflows so engineers can deliver with confidence.
• Standardise deployment patterns and reduce toil through tooling and automation.

Operate Reliable Systems

• Own observability – metrics, logging, tracing and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana) – so issues are caught and resolved before customers feel them.
• Design for high availability, graceful degradation and recovery across cloud and on‑premise environments.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and reliability risks early, particularly as traffic and scale grow.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and lead incident response, drive root‑cause analysis and follow through on durable fixes.

Support the Engineering Team

• Build self‑service tooling and clear processes that unblock engineers and reduce friction.
• Collaborate with backend, embedded, firmware and customer‑facing teams to deliver reliable end‑to‑end systems.
• Surface infrastructure risks and trade‑offs early so architecture and delivery decisions reflect real‑world constraints.
• Follow security and access‑management best practices across infrastructure, secrets and deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven professional experience (5+ years) in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Proven ability to provision and operate production infrastructure – from set‑up through deployment and on‑call ownership.
• Proven ability to decompose high‑level goals into actionable tasks, realistic schedules and clear milestones – with a track record of delivering on commitments.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud.
• Strong experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform).
• Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana).
• Comfortable scripting and automating in any general‑purpose language.
• Solid understanding of networking, Linux systems and security fundamentals.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Node).
• Experience operating hybrid cloud and on‑premise / bare‑metal fleets at scale.
• Background in highly available or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience supporting real‑time or low‑latency services.
• Experience with distributed and clustered data stores (e.g. ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2).