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Engineering Lead – Platform & SRE
Location: Santa Clara, California
About Kerrigan Automation
We are building the next generation of heterogeneous automation systems for manufacturing.
Our mission is to operationalize complex AI and robotics workloads across diverse
environments. We are looking for a specialist to bridge the gap between high-level software and
the & “iron” on the factory floor.
The Role
As the Engineering Lead for Platform, you own the “how” of our delivery. You bridge the gap
between code and runtime, ensuring our systems are deployable anywhere—from an
ephemeral cloud cluster for a sales demo to a ruggedized Industrial PC (IPC) on a factory floor.
You will build the foundation that enables both internal developers and external customers to
move fast and with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
● Hybrid Infrastructure: Architect a unified deployment model using Pulumi and
Kubernetes that spans AWS/GCP/Azure and on-premise bare metal.
● Turnkey Hardware: Lead the effort to package our software into hardware solutions
(Industrial PCs and rack-based deployments).
● CI/CD Leadership: Build next-gen pipelines in GitHub Actions that handle complex
builds, including future Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.
● Reliability: Define the observability and operation standards (Prometheus, Grafana, OIDC)
for our “Application Cells”
Requirements
● Experience: 6 years in SRE/DevOps
● K8s Mastery: Deep knowledge of K8s internals, CNIs, and multi-cluster management.
● Automation: Expert in Pulumi or Terraform, and Helm.
● Systems Thinking: Proficiency in Go and a strong grasp of Linux networking and
certificate management.
● Edge Knowledge: Experience with “Edge” or on-premise software delivery is a massive
plus.
Salary : $150,000 - $215,000