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Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Watney Robotics· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior infrastructure engineer responsible for powering and securing Watney's fleet of autonomous robots, including real-time video pipelines, remote access, CI, observability, release gates, data governance, and cross-team infrastructure changes.

Responsibilities

  • Own networking, remote access, and the real-time video pipelines for the fleet.
  • Own CI, observability, and alerting for the fleet and the services behind it.
  • Build the release gate and rollout process for the fleet, and own the bar a change must clear.
  • Decide where data lives, how it is kept, and what our infrastructure costs to run.
  • Lead infrastructure changes with the software engineers who run this infrastructure today, and across the ML and fleet operations teams who depend on it.

Qualifications

  • Have led an infrastructure change across several teams, or founded the team that owns one.
  • Have owned production networking or edge traffic for a large system.
  • Have migrated a large system in stages, through breaking changes, without breaking its users.
  • Have owned observability and alerting for a production system.
  • Have built tooling that other engineers rely on every day.
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Watney Robotics

Watney develops autonomous robotics systems to operate datacenter and supercomputing infrastructure.

Autonomous Physical Infrastructure

autonomous roboticsdatacentersupercomputinginfrastructurehyperscalerscompute scaling
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