Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer at 1X, a company building humanoid robots for home use. The role involves making cloud infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-service for teams building NEO, the flagship home robot.

🏢 About 1X

We're building humanoid robots that work in home - doing the chores, handling the tasks, and giving people their time back. Simple, but it's not. To do this right, we have to solve robotics, AI, manufacturing - at the same time, at scale, in a form factor that has to be safe enough to live with your family. If you're inspired by this, you'll thrive here. We've been at this since 2014 and we're at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us. NEO is our flagship - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people. We're not demoing it - we're shipping it. We're excited to meet you, if this excites you.

🎯 The Role

The mission of this role is to make 1X's cloud infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-service enough that every team building NEO can move as fast as the hardware allows. You'll own the reliability and scalability of our cloud infrastructure end-to-end, from architecture decisions through incident response, and build the automation and self-service tooling that lets the broader engineering team handle common requests safely on their own, without piling up technical debt. You'll also be a steady hand for day-to-day urgent requests and team support when the platform needs it most.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code systems that make provisioning and scaling reliable and easy.
• Build self-service tooling that lets engineers safely handle common cloud requests without creating technical debt.
• Drive incident response with clear communication and urgency, and lead post-incident remediations so we systematically improve.
• Partner with the security team to strengthen cloud infrastructure security and reliability.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Proven track record of 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.
• Experience with hands-on production operation of a major cloud provider or large-scale on-prem infrastructure using modern tooling.
• Experience with service-to-service communication, specifically identity and auth.
• Demonstrated ability to write production code in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with Terraform.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in improving incident response processes.
• Experience with AWS, Cloudflare, and/or GPU cloud providers.
• Experience in infrastructure security.
• Experience with chaos engineering and improving cloud reliability under adverse conditions.
• Experience in improving CI as a platform.

🎁 Benefits

Compensation Range: $190,000 - $230,000 + Equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
Onsite snacks and catered lunches

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, justice system impact, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.