Role overview

Platform Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain distributed infrastructure handling telemetry, sensory, and control data across cloud and edge environments
  • Design and operate data ingestion and streaming pipelines connecting robot fleets to the cloud in real time, covering video, joint states, audio, and LiDAR
  • Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that power Menlo's developer-facing platform, with a focus on reliability and developer experience
  • Manage and evolve cloud native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code tooling
  • Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, failover, and incident response
  • Support ML and robotics teams with data infrastructure for training pipelines, policy rollout, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation
  • Implement secure APIs with access control, rate limiting, and usage metering as we scale

What You'll Bring

  • 4 or more years of professional software engineering experience in platform, infrastructure, or data engineering
  • Proficiency in one or more of Go, Rust, Python, or TypeScript, with strong fundamentals in concurrency and systems performance
  • Hands-on experience with cloud native tooling: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and gRPC
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines and streaming systems -- Kafka, Flink, or similar
  • Solid understanding of API design patterns including REST, gRPC, and WebSockets
  • Experience with databases spanning PostgreSQL, Redis, and modern vector databases
  • Familiarity with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry

Bonus Points

  • Experience with real-time data streams from physical sensors or robotics systems
  • Familiarity with MLOps workflows including model versioning, inference pipelines, and model registries
  • Background in distributed training or large-scale simulation infrastructure
  • Contributions to open-source infrastructure, robotics middleware, or AI frameworks
  • Experience on developer platforms or API products
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