Senior/Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure for data collection, robot operations, and model training. You will own the reliability and latency of core infrastructure including databases and storage systems.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure for data collection, robot operations, and model training
• Own reliability, availability, and latency of databases, data warehouses, and object storage
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the data and compute stack
• Partner with research teams to translate model training needs into scalable solutions
• Collaborate with robotics teams to support field operations with low-latency services
• Build observability tooling including metrics, logging, and alerting
• Define and enforce infrastructure best practices for security, cost, and scalability
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related role
• Strong proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Hands-on experience managing relational and NoSQL databases in production
• Experience operating data warehouse solutions and large-scale object storage
• Solid backend development skills in Python, Go, or a similar language
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts
• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes or equivalent platforms
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex production incidents under pressure

Nice to have

• Experience building infrastructure for ML workloads
• Familiarity with robotics or embedded systems backends
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines
• Background working with time-series databases
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Track record of building multi-tenant infrastructure
• Experience building self-service infrastructure platforms

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.