Staff DevOps Engineer at Boston Dynamics

Compensation

$118,000 – $150,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Level: Principal

Description

Boston Dynamics is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join their Central Software (CSW) team. The role involves designing, building, and operating on-premise and cloud infrastructure for their robotics platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and security. Responsibilities include leading complex infrastructure projects, contributing to reliability efforts, and championing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.

Required Skills

DevOps
infrastructure engineering
bare-metal server infrastructure
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
Terraform
Ansible
Packer
observability platforms
security fundamentals
CI/CD systems
scripting or systems languages

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated contributions of both on-prem and cloud environments in production.
Preferred Qualifications: Direct experience with robotics-specific infrastructure challenges, such as high-throughput telemetry ingestion, large-scale simulation pipelines, or managing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environments.
Proven track record of modernizing legacy components or migrating services across hybrid cloud/on-prem environments while maintaining high uptime for critical engineering workflows.
Deep proficiency in observability for distributed systems, specifically diagnosing and resolving performance bottlenecks that span both hybrid cloud and physical network layers.

About Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics

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Boston Dynamics builds practical robotics to tackle automation challenges, and describes itself as a global robotics company. Its products include Spot, a mobile robot for gathering data and keeping people out of harm’s way; Stretch for case handling and warehouse automation; and Atlas, an enterprise humanoid robot for industrial work and material handling.