Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
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Job Description
About Our Team
Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown AI has the potential to drive immense change. However we believe AIs biggest impact will be in the physical world given industries like manufacturing food and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. Were starting with food with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. Were backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Construct Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise Zoox Google Verb Surgical Tesla Nuro Vicarious Amazon Robotics Strateos Built Robotics Facebook Plenty Yelp and Microsoft.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer Cloud Platform at Chef Robotics youll be responsible for designing implementing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and deployment systems that power our robotics platform. Youll focus on provisioning robots for seamless deployment enabling remote software updates to enhance performance and reliability and developing cloud infrastructure that supports real-time robotics operations. This role requires expertise in cloud platforms containerization and infrastructure automation to ensure scalable and reliable deployment of our robotics systems across customer environments.
Cloud Infrastructure & Deployment
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure to support robotics platform deployment and operations
- Provision robots for seamless deployment across diverse customer environments
- Enable remote software updates to enhance performance and reliability of deployed systems
- Implement containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) for scalable deployments
- Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS GCP or Azure platforms
System Reliability & Performance
- Improve the performance and reliability of cloud services supporting the Chef system
- Implement fault-tolerant design patterns to ensure reliability in production environments
- Establish performance benchmarks and optimize systems to meet latency requirements for robotics operations
- Implement comprehensive logging monitoring and alerting for cloud infrastructure
- Create diagnostic tools and dashboards for operational visibility
DevOps & Automation
- Implement CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Develop automated deployment pipelines for robotics software and services
- Create and maintain deployment scripts and configuration management systems
- Establish version control and rollback mechanisms for system updates
- Develop tools for consistent environment provisioning and management
Data Pipeline & Integration
- Maintain secure and efficient data pipelines between on-device and cloud services
- Implement systems to support real-time communication between robotics systems and cloud infrastructure
- Design cloud architecture that supports telemetry data collection and processing
- Ensure secure authentication and authorization mechanisms across cloud services
Required Qualifications - Technical Expertise
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps roles
- Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS GCP or Azure)
- Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies
- Extensive experience with CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Experience with system monitoring logging and performance optimization
- Understanding of secure data pipeline design and implementation
Domain Knowledge
- Understanding of infrastructure requirements for robotics or automation systems
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems and cloud architecture
- Background in developing reliable systems with high availability requirements
- Knowledge of deployment automation and configuration management
- Familiarity with system performance optimization including latency and scalability
Personal Attributes
- Strong problem-solving skills with a systematic approach to infrastructure challenges
- Excellence in technical communication and documentation
- Proactive mindset in identifying potential issues and implementing solutions
- Comfort with working in a fast-paced startup environment
- Passion for robotics and automation technology
- Collaborative approach to cross-functional engineering teams
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with robotics hardware deployment and management
- Knowledge of ROS (Robot Operating System) or similar frameworks
- Experience with time-series databases for telemetry data
- Familiarity with message queue systems for distributed systems
- Background in manufacturing food production or industrial automation
- Experience with WebSockets for real-time communication
- Knowledge of Redis for caching and distributed system patterns
Key Projects Youll Work On
- Provisioning robots for seamless deployment across customer sites
- Implementing remote software update systems for deployed robotics fleets
- Improving the performance and reliability of cloud services supporting the Chef system
- Building automated deployment pipelines for robotics software
- Developing monitoring and diagnostic tools for distributed robotics operations
$150000 - $240000 a year
Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. As the company secures more capital we will gradually increase salary and cash compensation. The starting salary will depend on seniority.
In addition to salary and early-stage equity we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision insurance commuter benefits flexible paid time off (PTO) catered lunch and 401(k) matching.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizen status uniform service member and veteran status marital status age pregnancy status protected medical condition genetic information disability or any other protected status.
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates wont apply if they dont meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you dont check every box in the description we encourage you to apply anyway!
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Employment Type
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