Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Gatik; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gatik is seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to support the operation, monitoring, and scaling of our autonomous freight fleet. You will partner with infrastructure and platform teams to manage on-prem and cloud infrastructure for expansions to new customer sites.

In this role you will set up and monitor data offload systems, remote supervision stations, and CI environments, ensuring reliability, security, and performance as we grow our fleet and customer base.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability/DevOps/Infrastructure roles.
• Strong networking knowledge and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on with Docker and related tools; Kubernetes experience.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade and maintain physical and cloud infrastructure for offloading data from autonomous fleet.
• Collaborate with infra and platform teams to monitor and troubleshoot on-prem data offload and CI systems.
• Design and maintain BI dashboards and ETL pipelines to monitor infrastructure performance.
• Architect and deploy test environments for internal and customer-facing infra solutions.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and upgrades of remote monitoring software.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Postgres

TimescaleDB

InfluxDB

Grafana

Argo

Airflow

Python

Bash

Tools

Docker Compose

Kaniko

Job description

Who We Are

Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight, and that business is already on the road.

Every day, Gatik's autonomous trucks move freight for Fortune 50 retailers, grocers and consumer brands across Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and Canada, connecting distribution centers and stores and keeping goods moving. At the heart of it all is the Gatik Driver™, our proprietary Level 4 autonomous driving system, powered by scalable, interpretable AI and engineered to deliver safe, reliable, high-frequency freight operations.

Gatik's momentum is real. With more than $600 million in contracted revenue and $200 million raised in our August 2026 Series D round, Gatik has taken one of the toughest challenges in autonomous technology and turned it into a proven commercial business.

And the market is paying attention. In 2026, Gatik earned a place on Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers list, and the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. The Gatik Driver™ won an Edison Award for Advancements in Autonomous Driving, and Inc. named our Co-founder and Chief Engineer, Apeksha Kumavat, to its Female Founders 500 list.

There's a lot more road ahead, and some of the brightest, most driven minds in autonomous technology are building the next chapter at Gatik. We're taking on hard engineering problems, pushing the limits of what's possible and building on a commercial foundation that's already proven itself in the real world with some of the biggest companies in the world, like PepsiCo and Loblaw. If you're ambitious, love solving problems that matter and want to see your work make a real difference, you'll find plenty to get excited about here.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to support the operation, monitoring, and scaling of our growing fleet of autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will work closely with our infrastructure and platform teams to manage rollouts of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure in support of expansions to new customer sites.

You will be directly involved in the setup and monitoring of our data offload systems, remote supervision stations, and on-prem continuous integration (CI) environments, ensuring our infrastructure is highly reliable, secure, and optimized for performance. This position plays a critical role in keeping our autonomy operations running smoothly while supporting the rapid growth of our fleet and customer base.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Santa Clara, CA office!

What you'll do

• Upgrade and maintain both physical and cloud infrastructure used for offloading data from our autonomous vehicle fleet.
• Partner with the infrastructure and platform engineering teams to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot our on-premises data offload and CI systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain business intelligence (BI) dashboards and ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines to provide actionable insights into our infrastructure performance and health.
• Architect and deploy test environments to validate internal and customer-facing infrastructure solutions.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and upgrading of our remote monitoring software to ensure operational efficiency.
• Perform ongoing analysis of infrastructure performance, identifying opportunities for optimization in latency, throughput, and reliability.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience in a related role such as Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals, including protocols, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and related ecosystem tools (e.g., Docker Compose, Kaniko).
• Expertise in Kubernetes deployments and package management via Helm.
• Proficiency with relational and time-series databases (e.g., Postgres, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB).
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Argo and Airflow.
• Proven experience managing upgrades and rollbacks for customer-facing SaaS environments.
• Scripting experience in Python and Bash for automation and tooling.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards with tools like Grafana.

Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017, Gatik has grown into a commercial force in autonomous freight, operating trucks daily in live customer networks across the United States and Canada. We're headquartered in Santa Clara, California, but our impact is felt on the roads and in the supply chains that keep essential goods moving for some of the biggest companies in North America.

Our trucks do some of the most demanding work in freight, running high-frequency, time-sensitive routes between distribution centers and stores, where reliability matters every single day. For our customers, that means more capacity, better service and products arriving where they need to be, when they need to be there.

Behind it all is AI-first technology built from the ground up for autonomous trucking, capable of navigating highways and surface streets and tackling the complexity of real-world logistics at scale.

Visit Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.

Notable News

• TechCrunch: Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal
• Reuters: Gatik secures $200 million in funding as autonomous freight market accelerates
• Bloomberg: Driverless Trucks Can Save Lives on America's Roads
• PepsiCo website: PepsiCo and Gatik announce multi-year agreement to deploy autonomous freight in North America
• Wall Street Journal: Driverless Trucks Are Here - and They're Delivering Bags of Doritos
• CBS News: Pepsi deploys self-driving delivery trucks
• Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million
• Forbes: Hundreds' Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads
• CNBC-TV18: No more test runs: Gatik says driverless trucks are now a real, money-making business
• Forbes: Gatik And Loblaw Announce Largest Commercial Deployment Of AV Trucks

Taking care of our team

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment's sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

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