Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

AI overview

Lead the design and implementation of scalable operations infrastructure for cloud reliability while mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of operational excellence.

Intrinsic is Alphabet’s bet aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI, perception and simulation will redefine what’s possible for industrial robotics in the near future – with software and data at the core. 

Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent, accessible, and usable for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.

Role


As a Senior Software Engineer on the Operations Infrastructure team, you will lead the design and implementation of the systems that ensure the reliability and health of our cloud platform. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to architect scalable monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions, working closely with infrastructure teams to prototype new patterns. In this role, you will also serve as a technical mentor to junior colleagues, defining engineering standards for metrics and playbooks and fostering a culture of operational excellence across the organization.

How your work moves the mission forward

  • Design and build scalable operations infrastructure, covering monitoring, alerting, and data visualization tools.
  • Ensure the reliability of the cloud platform by creating tools that enable proactive incident detection and response.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure teams to design and prototype new architecture that supports long-term platform stability.
  • Mentor and support junior engineers (L4) to foster technical growth and ensure high-quality code and system design.
  • Define and standardize technical requirements for engineering teams regarding observability metrics, logging, and operational playbooks.
  • Drive the adoption of proactive incident detection tools to minimize downtime and improve system resilience.

Skills you will need to be successful

  • Masters’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in software development with a focus on infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps.
  • Experience mentoring or technically leading junior engineers or small project teams.
  • Experience with one of Go, Python, or C++.
  • Experience building or working with logging, monitoring, and alerting tooling.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms and Kubernetes.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

  • Experience with specific monitoring and visualization tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Experience defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
  • Experience working with "Infrastructure as Code" tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Startup experience—building from 0 to 1 in a rapidly changing technical landscape.

At Intrinsic, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment at Intrinsic is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Intrinsic does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Intrinsic’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at: [email protected].

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