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Bright Machines · 12 hours ago

Senior Platform Engineer

positionSan Francisco, California
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$160K/yr - $190K/yr
date5+ years exp

Bright Machines is an innovative company transforming the manufacturing industry with intelligent, software-driven automation. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and maintain secure infrastructure while improving platform engineering tools and services to support automation systems in modern factories.

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Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support applications and automation systems
Own and continuously improve platform engineering tools and services, including documentation and cross-team communication
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines
Manage CI/CD systems to enable efficient and reliable delivery of software
Implement and operate observability solutions (logging, monitoring, alerting) to ensure uptime and system performance
Enforce security best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response readiness
Participate in the on-call rotation for services owned by the Platform Engineering team

Qualification

Platform EngineeringCI/CD toolsKubernetesInfrastructure as CodePythonAWSAzureLinux administrationShell scriptingNetworking equipmentObservability tools

Required

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
At least 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Strong experience with physical infrastructure, including networking equipment and servers
Proficiency with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows
Hands-on coding experience in Python and Shell scripting
Solid understanding of Linux internals and system administration
Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (self-hosted and managed), including Helm
Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Preferred

Experience with bare-metal provisioning (MaaS or similar)

Company

Bright Machines

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Bright Machines brings together flexible factory robots with intelligent software, production data and machine learning.
dateFounded in 2018
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.brightmachines.com

H1B Sponsorship

Bright Machines has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2024 (7)
2023 (10)
2022 (5)
2021 (1)
2020 (3)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$437M
Key Investors
BlackRockJP Morgan ChaseEclipse Ventures
2024-06-25Series C· $106M
2024-06-25Debt Financing· $20M
2022-10-30Debt Financing· $32M

Leadership Team

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Paolo Avagliano
Chief Executive Officer
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