Senior Infrastructure Engineer – SRE & Security

Nimble Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

Equity

401k

Referral Bonus

Parking benefits

Job summary

Nimble Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to build secure, reliable, and scalable systems across cloud, on-premise, and robot-facing services. You will own end-to-end development, security controls, observability, and incident response for Nimble’s production environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen security postures, reliability, and operational excellence, mentoring others while contributing to a legendary robotics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, or SRE experience.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of ambiguous projects, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Go, C++, Python, or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of modern attack vectors, defensive mitigation strategies, secure software development practices, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining technical tradeoffs and security concerns to cross-functional teams.
• Experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure and distributed backend systems.
• Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL systems, encryption-based access, secrets management, or policy engines.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the infrastructure roadmap for secure, reliable, and scalable software services, robotics products, embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems.
• Act as a primary technical authority on security, infrastructure reliability, availability, compliance, and operational excellence across the organization.
• Lead security architecture reviews, reliability reviews, production readiness reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
• Design and implement security controls, reliability patterns, data compliance mechanisms, and guardrails for On-Premise and Cloud infrastructure.
• Develop platforms, tools, and automation that improve cloud security posture, system reliability, developer velocity, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers on secure design, reliable system architecture, and production engineering practices.
• Develop observability via metrics, logs, traces, dashboards for detection, monitoring, alerting, and remediation of vulnerabilities and incidents.
• Define and improve incident response processes, including on-call practices and postmortems.
• Drive software engineering best practices with high-quality, well-tested code.

Skills

Rust

Go

C++

Python

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

CloudFormation

IAM

Secrets management

Vulnerability management

Job description

Nimble Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team to build secure, reliable, and scalable systems across cloud, on-premise, and robot-facing services. You will own end-to-end development, security controls, observability, and incident response for Nimble’s production environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen security postures, reliability, and operational excellence, mentoring others while contributing to a legendary robotics