Senior DevOps Engineer – Robotics & OTA Fleet

Knightscope; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Knightscope in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the build, deployment, and release infrastructure for our autonomous security robot fleet. You will manage CI/CD pipelines across autonomy, security perception, and embedded firmware stacks, and oversee OTA deployment to a production fleet.

You will collaborate with a small, efficient team, mentor engineers, and help design scalable cloud infrastructure and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with ownership of CI/CD systems
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI and Git-based workflows
• Strong Linux systems expertise including networking, storage, performance, and security
• Experience with AWS and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience supporting C++ and Python development teams on Linux
• Python scripting and automation tooling experience

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and continuously improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for a production robotics platform spanning autonomy, security perception, and embedded firmware stacks
• Own the OTA update pipeline: multi-image container builds, staged fleet rollout, and rollback across heterogeneous hardware targets
• Manage cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes deployments supporting ML training pipelines, model registry, and fleet telemetry
• Triage CI failures, distinguish infrastructure from product issues, and drive resolution with clear ownership
• Improve observability across pipelines and deployed systems through automation, metrics, logging, and monitoring
• Build and maintain internal tooling, leveraging AI to automate workflows, reduce toil, and improve CI failure analysis
• Mentor engineers and contribute to platform architecture decisions across the team

Job description

Knightscope in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the build, deployment, and release infrastructure for our autonomous security robot fleet. You will manage CI/CD pipelines across autonomy, security perception, and embedded firmware stacks, and oversee OTA deployment to a production fleet.

You will collaborate with a small, efficient team, mentor engineers, and help design scalable cloud infrastructure and observability.