Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloud)

The role

You will own the data infrastructure and cloud systems that power the autonomous driving platform. You will design and scale pipelines that move operational data from real-world deployments into systems for development, testing, and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines
• Architect and manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Integrate on-prem and cloud data flows
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Develop internal services and automation tools
• Establish and enforce best practices for data reliability, observability, and security
• Drive root-cause analysis for data infrastructure and pipeline issues
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure and data systems for large-scale distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Python with a focus on data pipeline development and automation
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, and gRPC
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services including compute, storage, and data processing
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience automating deployments with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows, code review processes, and collaborative software development

Nice to have

• Experience integrating on-prem and cloud data flows in a hybrid infrastructure environment
• Background in data engineering for robotics, autonomous systems, or real-time operational data
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack
• Familiarity with networking, security, and distributed system performance optimization
• Experience supporting safety-critical, real-time, or high-availability systems

About the company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. It is a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving.