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Senior Robotics Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer
BurroPhiladelphia, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Aug 2025
About the role
Burro is the leading robotics company in the world by number of robots working outdoors in the field with real customers. Our mission is to free people from tedious work and solve the critical labor shortages faced by farmers and others that work outdoors.
To accomplish our mission, we need a world-class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.
Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst Investors, Translink Capital, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.
Burros can be described as Disney's Wall-E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format. They function, today, as computer vision based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors. We have a growing triple digit fleet deployed in paid commercial use within vineyards, nurseries, berries, and beyond, and demand for our product is accelerating, so we are growing our team.
About you: We are seeking an experienced Senior Robotics Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer to bring their expertise to our growing team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of scaling companies into high-reliability enterprise-level infrastructure and systems. This role is crucial for accelerating our entire engineering team and will work closely with our QA Software Engineer to ensure seamless development, testing, and deployment workflows, with a specific focus on optimizing build systems, packaging, and continuous integration/delivery processes.We are looking for a teammate who shares our enthusiasm for working with collaborative robots made to handle the tedious and physically demanding parts of agricultural work, has a passion for delivering a high-quality end-to-end user experience, and maintains a collaborative attitude that supports and uplifts everyone they work with.
To accomplish our mission, we need a world-class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.
Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst Investors, Translink Capital, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.
Burros can be described as Disney's Wall-E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format. They function, today, as computer vision based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors. We have a growing triple digit fleet deployed in paid commercial use within vineyards, nurseries, berries, and beyond, and demand for our product is accelerating, so we are growing our team.
About you: We are seeking an experienced Senior Robotics Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer to bring their expertise to our growing team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of scaling companies into high-reliability enterprise-level infrastructure and systems. This role is crucial for accelerating our entire engineering team and will work closely with our QA Software Engineer to ensure seamless development, testing, and deployment workflows, with a specific focus on optimizing build systems, packaging, and continuous integration/delivery processes.We are looking for a teammate who shares our enthusiasm for working with collaborative robots made to handle the tedious and physically demanding parts of agricultural work, has a passion for delivering a high-quality end-to-end user experience, and maintains a collaborative attitude that supports and uplifts everyone they work with.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end optimization and automation of our software build, packaging, and deployment pipelines for our diverse robot fleet.
- Share ownership of the design, deployment, and ongoing management of our global infrastructure, with a particular focus on optimizing software delivery to edge devices in low-bandwidth, high-latency, lossy networking environments.
- Optimize and manage build systems and processes to decrease build times, resolve circular dependencies, and efficiently manage third-party library integrations.
- Develop and implement advanced deployment pipelines, focusing on build packaging, staging, and robust deployment strategies for our robot fleet.
- Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, leveraging tools like GitHub Workflows to ensure efficient and reliable software releases.
- Manage and maintain containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) for development, testing, and deployment environments.
- Perform system administration for both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
- Champion and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools like Ansible for configuration management and runbook automation.
- Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions to gather build metrics and statistics, and create intuitive dashboards for actionable insights.
- Maintain and secure OS environments, packages, and system services across on-premises, cloud infrastructure, and our robot fleet, ensuring stable and consistent platforms for builds and deployments.
- Prescribe and implement security procedures and best practices, including identity and access management.
- Increase the capacity and efficiency of the Engineering teams through use of state-of-the-art tooling and process automation, particularly for build and deployment workflows.
- Collaborate with Robot Support Engineers to quickly diagnose and address customer-facing issues, and support the migration of legacy build systems and tools.
- Document design proposals, implementations, and procedures, including runbooks for automated processes.
- Advocate for Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, and Attribute-based Access Control frameworks and best practices.
- Provide essential support for engineering development environments, including setting up new hire workstations and managing development tool
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