Staff Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to scale our data collection, monitoring, and vehicle infrastructure to support our growing fleet of autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our platform and autonomy teams to design and deliver infrastructure solutions that directly impact autonomy software development, issue triage, and deployment of AVs to new customer sites.This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your work will enable reliable data pipelines, scalable CI systems, and efficient deployments to production environments.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Santa Clara, CA office!

What you'll do

• Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingestion, aggregation, and presentation of data from our fleet of live autonomous trucks, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Design and implement solutions for upgrading and deploying on-board vehicle infrastructure and AV stack software to production vehicles with minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with autonomy and platform teams to deliver scalable CI pipelines that automate the development, testing, and release of AV software.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions (e.g., Terraform) to manage setup and teardown of environments supporting operations at customer-facing sites.
• Work with operations teams to coordinate and execute deployments to new customer sites.
• Develop and manage scalable deployment of in-house simulation software, integrating scenario-based simulation testing into CI pipelines to validate AV software before release.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years of experience in a similar infrastructure engineering role.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and related tools (e.g., Docker Compose, Kaniko).
• Experience deploying to Kubernetes and managing packages via Helm.
• Knowledge of relational and time-series databases (e.g., Postgres, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB).
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Argo, Airflow).
• Proven track record managing upgrades and rollbacks of customer-facing SaaS environments.
• Scripting expertise in Python and Bash.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Working knowledge of CI/CD solutions such as GitLab CI or Jenkins is a plus.

Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000

More about Gatik

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Notable News

• Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million
• Forbes: Hundreds’ Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads
• Forbes:Gatik And Loblaw Announce Largest Commercial Deployment Of AV Trucks
• Forbes: Forget robotaxis. Upstart Gatik sees middle-mile deliveries as the path to profitable AVs
• Tech Brew: Gatik AI exec unpacks the regulations that could shape the AV industry
• Business Wire: Gatik Paves the Way for Safe Driverless Operations (‘Freight-Only’) at Scale with Industry-First Third-Party Safety Assessment Framework
• Auto Futures: Autonomous Trucking Group Gatik Secures Investment From NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS
• Automotive News: Gatik foresees hundreds of self-driving trucks on road soon, and that's just the beginning
• Forbes: Isuzu And Gatik Go All In To Scale Up Driverless Freight Services
• Bloomberg: Autonomous Vehicle Startup Takes Off by Picking Off Easier Routes
• Reuters: Driverless vehicles on limited routes bump along despite US robotaxi scrutiny