Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
About the Role
Our company is experiencing significant growth and is seeking skilled leaders to join our agile, world-class team. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to design, build, and automate our cloud infrastructure and developer platform.
You will work on managing cloud-native environments, developing internal tooling, and improving networking and security in hybrid and multi-cloud setups. This role requires deep expertise in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), service meshes, and cloud networking models.
Location:
Remote
About the Work
Cloud Administration and Orchestration:
- Architect, implement, and manage scalable, resilient infrastructure in AWS, GCP, Azure and on-prem environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Crossplane, and Kubernetes operators.
- Implement GitOps workflows to manage infrastructure and automation
- Design and implement hybrid cloud networking models, including VPC peering, Transit Gateways, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
- Optimize service-to-service communication across clouds and data centers
- Improve network observability and security by integrating firewall rules, network policies, and zero-trust architectures.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters, leveraging service meshes like Istio for secure service-to-service communication.
Platform Engineering & Developer Tooling
- Build and maintain internal developer tooling and self-service infrastructure platforms.
- Enable engineering teams with secure, scalable environments for application development and deployment.
- Standardize IAM policies, RBAC, and workload identity management across cloud providers.
Incident Response, Security and Reliability:
- Enhance incident response, postmortem analysis, and performance optimization strategies.
- Ensure high availability, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery planning for critical infrastructure.
- Enforce cloud security best practices, including network segmentation, least privilege access, and encryption.
- Work with compliance teams to meet SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other regulatory requirements.
Collaboration and Enablement:
- Partner with software engineers, release engineering, and security teams to drive platform adoption and best practices across the organization.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform engineering processes, configurations, and tools.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, sharing knowledge on best practices and tools.
About You
Experience:
- 6+ years of experience with at least 4+ years of experience in infrastructure, site reliability, platform engineering, DevOps or similar roles.
- Strong experience in Kubernetes including production-grade cluster management, deployments and service mesh implementation
- Experience in hybrid and multi-cloud networking models.
Experience with service discovery, API gateways, and distributed systems.Experience with MQTT, message brokers and event-driven systemsExperience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Terraform, Crossplane, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and scripting.
- Understanding of software development methodologies and lifecycle processes.
- Hands-on experience with GitOps Workflows and developer automation tooling.
- Solid understanding of Linux, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, IPsec), and cloud security.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with Hybrid cloud environments (On Prem + Cloud)
- Experience with Istio, Envoy Gateway
- Experience with Crossplane
- Experience with Bazel, ArgoCD
- Experience in IoT, Robotics
- Experience with HiveMQ, Temporal, Kafka
- SOC 2 or related (HIPAA/HITRUST/PCI) Experience
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job, as this is subject to change at any time with or without notice. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by anyone authorized to give such instructions or assignments.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; talk and hear; use hands to touch, feel, handle, push/pull, and move objects; see details of objects that are less than a few feet away; see differences between colors, shades, and brightness. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and move around the office; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch; and see details of objects more than a few feet away.
Benefits
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches twice a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
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