Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Pickle Robot Company

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $100,000 - $125,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Bootstrap, Cloud, Distributed Systems, DNS, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, IoT, Linux, Prometheus, Python, Terraform, Vault
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Charlestown, United States

About the role

• DevOps Engineer building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and data pipelines at Pickle Robot Company. Join the team revolutionizing warehouse automation with robotic unload systems.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud architecture applied using repeatable Terraform for GCP, including IAM, Artifact Registry, Cloud Run/Compute, load balancers/IAP, and Cloud DNS.
• Evolve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with reusable workflows, intelligent caching, secrets/attestations, and WIF/OIDC integration to GCP.
• Level-up observability using Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Alertmanager, establishing sensible SLOs and quiet, actionable alerts.
• Harden the platform with least-privilege IAM, Secret Manager/Vault integration, service-to-service authentication, and software provenance tracking.
• Ship slimmer, reproducible Docker images and define base-image policies with automated scanning for vulnerabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines to capture logs and telemetry from robots in the field, enabling real-time monitoring and analysis.
• Build small internal tools and CLIs (usually Python) to eliminate toil, such as DNS checks, release helpers, and deployment automation.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts to bootstrap laptops, servers, and robot controllers, streamlining deployment and configuration management.
• Work cross-functionally with software engineering, hardware, and deployment teams to ensure our robots are operationally ready to serve customers with minimal downtime.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Write crisp documentation, PR templates, and lightweight runbooks that people actually use.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact customers.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years in software engineering; you've shipped production systems and have a strong software foundation.
• Proficiency with Linux, Git, Docker, and Python for automation and infrastructure management.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure management (GCP preferred): IAM, compute (Cloud Run or GCE), networking/load balancing, storage, PubSub, and Artifact Registry.
• Strong experience creating CI/CD and build pipelines that integrate different providers securely, utilizing technologies such as IAM, service account impersonation, and Workload Identity Federation.
• Security-minded with deep understanding of least privilege, secrets management, and OIDC/SAML concepts. SecOps experience is a plus.
• Bias to automate and document; comfortable taking a loosely defined task to done with light guidance.
• Pragmatic about trade-offs; you can explain the "why," not just the "what."Familiarity with Robot Operating System (ROS) and the unique challenges of deploying software to robotic systems.
• Experience managing a fleet of robotic devices or IoT systems, including remote monitoring, updates, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex issues across distributed systems.
• Strong interpersonal and technical communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, hardware, and deployment teams in a hybrid environment with distributed teammates.
• Detail-oriented problem-solver with a strong sense of urgency and willingness to help colleagues and customers in their time of need.
• Self-motivated with high ownership mentality; personal responsibility with a collective mindset.

Benefits

• health, dental, & vision insurance
• unlimited vacation
• all federal and state holidays
• 401K contributions of 5% your salary
• travel supplies
• other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive