Senior DevOps Lead — Cloud & Autonomous Systems (Equity)

Cyngn, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Sabbatical after 5 years

In-office lunches & kitchen

Job summary

Cyngn, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Senior DevOps Lead to architect and manage the infrastructure for our autonomous vehicle platform.

You will bridge cloud operations and edge computing, leading a team of DevOps engineers to build scalable, reliable systems across AWS and ROS/Linux environments. Responsibilities include designing scalable cloud services and vehicle systems, establishing DevOps best practices, and driving observability, incident response, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps/Infrastructure with leadership experience.
• Advanced AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes expertise.
• Experience with Istio, Helm/Kustomize, ROS/ROS2, and Linux.
• Python and shell scripting proficiency; Ansible and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux.
• Design scalable cloud and autonomous vehicle system solutions.
• Institute CI/CD, IaC, and observability best practices.
• Drive incident response, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and manage on-call rotations.
• Architect telemetry data processing and secure infrastructure.
• Oversee security and compliance for large-scale edge/cloud systems.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Helm/Kustomize

ROS/ROS2

Linux

Python

Shell scripting

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CUDA

NVIDIA

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Helm/Kustomize

ROS/ROS2

Linux kernel

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CUDA/NVIDIA

JFrog Artifactory

AWS Cognito / IoT

Job description

Cyngn, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Senior DevOps Lead to architect and manage the infrastructure for our autonomous vehicle platform.

You will bridge cloud operations and edge computing, leading a team of DevOps engineers to build scalable, reliable systems across AWS and ROS/Linux environments. Responsibilities include designing scalable cloud services and vehicle systems, establishing DevOps best practices, and driving observability, incident response, and cost efficiency.