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Software Engineer, DevOps

    Job description

    Software Engineer, DevOps | Software Engineering
    Location: Palo Alto, CA (on‑site)

    About 1X
    We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.

    Role Overview
    Join a 45-person engineering team to own CI/CD, cloud infra, and release pipelines for autonomous robots. Ship fast, break nothing, repeat.

    You Will

    • Build and harden GitLab CI/CD pipelines used by all software teams

    • Manage AWS/GCP/Azure infra with Terraform; keep it scalable and bulletproof

    • Own releases: dev → test → prod, zero downtime

    • Automate testing, monitoring, alerting

    • Rotate on-call (PDT hours)

    • Cut cycle time from commit to robot

    Job requirements

    Must-Have

    • 3–5 yrs DevOps / Platform

    • GitLab CI/CD mastery

    • Terraform + cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

    • Docker + Kubernetes

    • Python / Bash

    • Monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

    • BS CS or equivalent

    Nice-to-Have

    • Release engineering in robotics or hardware-heavy environments

    • CircleCI, Ansible, network security

    • QA automation

    Comp & Perks

    • Base Salary: $180k - $220k

    • Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at 1X, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical,

    1X an Equal Opportunity Employer

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    On-site
    • Palo Alto, California, United States
    $140,000 - $220,000 per year
    Software Engineering