Developer Infrastructure Engineer, Robot Platform

Developer Infrastructure Engineer · Senior · Full Time

Redwood City, CAUSD 180k – 250k3mo ago
Apply for this role

Opens Sunday's application page

Role

What you'll do.

Sunday is seeking a Developer Infrastructure Engineer for their Robot Platform team, responsible for building foundational systems and developer infrastructure that enable rapid and safe software delivery to their home robotics fleet. The ideal candidate will design and optimize build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and over-the-air update mechanisms for cutting-edge robotic software deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Build System Management: Own and evolve build systems to maintain speed, hermeticity, and reliability as the codebase grows
  • CI/CD Pipeline Design: Create pre-merge and post-merge pipelines that detect regressions and generate trustworthy release artifacts
  • Artifact Pipeline Development: Design packaging, versioning, and signing pipelines for system software, application code, and ML models
  • Development Environment Management: Define and maintain consistent development containers and dependency management
  • Over-the-Air Update System: Build and operate OTA systems with staged rollouts, canary deployments, rollback, and verification mechanisms
  • Developer Experience Optimization: Reduce time-to-deployment and provide clear feedback mechanisms for development workflows

Qualifications

What we look for.

Technical

  • Build Infrastructure

    5+ years of experience in build infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, or software delivery

  • Build Systems

    Hands-on experience with modern build systems like Bazel, Buck, or CMake at scale

  • Container Technologies

    Working knowledge of Docker/OCI and image management strategies

Education

  • Computer Science

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred

Experience

  • Software Deployment

    Proven experience deploying software to production environments with versioning and rollback strategies

  • Multi-language Development

    Comfortable working with systems and scripting languages (C++/Rust/Go and Python)

Skills

Required

  • Build Systems

    Experience with modern build systems like Bazel, Buck, or CMake at scale

  • CI/CD

    Designing and managing comprehensive continuous integration and deployment pipelines

  • Containers

    Proficiency with Docker/OCI and container image management

  • Software Deployment

    Experience with production software rollout, versioning, and safe update mechanisms

  • Systems Languages

    Hands-on coding in C++, Rust, or Go

  • Scripting Languages

    Proficiency in Python

  • Linux

    Comfortable working with Linux as a deployment platform

Preferred

  • Bazel

    Nice to have

    Experience with Bazel in polyglot codebases

  • OTA Updates

    Nice to have

    Building update systems for embedded devices or robotic fleets

  • ML Model Deployment

    Nice to have

    Experience packaging and versioning ML models

  • Supply Chain Security

    Nice to have

    Knowledge of artifact signing and reproducible builds

Tech stack

Languages

C++RustGoPython

Tools

BazelDockerLinux

Other

CI/CD ToolsOTA Update Systems

Compensation

Pay and benefits.

Base·USD 180,000 – 250,000

Benefits

  • Innovative Work

    Opportunity to work on cutting-edge home robotics technology

  • Equal Opportunity

    Diverse and inclusive workplace committed to supporting underrepresented groups in tech

Process

Interview steps.

  1. 01

    Initial Screening

    Review of application and resume

  2. 02

    Technical Phone Screen

    Preliminary discussion of technical skills and experience

  3. 03

    Technical Interview

    In-depth evaluation of build systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure expertise

  4. 04

    Team Fit Interview

    Assessment of collaboration and alignment with team culture

Full posting

Original listing.

Join Us in Building the Future of Home Robotics

At Sunday, we're developing personal robots to reclaim the hours lost to repetitive tasks. We're focused on an ambitious goal to make generalized robots broadly accessible, enabling households to take back quality time.

We have spent the last 18 months building a talented team, securing capital, and validating our technology. We are now seeking passionate individuals to join us in the next phase of our growth. If you are ready to apply your skills to the forefront of robotics innovation, we’d love to hear from you.

What to Expect

The Robot Platform team builds the foundational systems that every part of our robot perception, ML, controls and behavior runs on, and the developer infrastructure that lets us build, ship, and update that software quickly and safely on every robot in the fleet.

As a Developer Infrastructure Engineer on Robot Platform, you’ll own how code and model artifacts get built and delivered to the robot. From the moment a developer hits commit to the moment the new binary, middleware, or model is running on a robot in someone’s home. You’ll build the systems that let our engineers ship quickly and confidently: a fast and reliable build, a CI/CD pipeline they trust, signed and reproducible artifacts and an OTA path that gets those artifacts safely onto the fleet. You’ll work alongside teammates who own the runtime substrate and the GPU and accelerated compute layer, they build what runs on the robot; you build how it gets there.

What You’ll Do

  • Build system: Own and evolve our build system to keep builds fast, hermetic, and reliable as the codebase and team grow

  • CI/CD: Design and operate pre-merge and post-merge pipelines that catch regressions early and produce trustworthy release artifacts

  • Artifact pipeline: Build the packaging, versioning, and signing pipeline for the binaries that ship to the robot i.e. system software, application code, and exported/compiled ML models

  • Dev containers & dependency management: Define and maintain consistent development containers and package/dependency management across the team, keeping the dev environment in parity with the base Linux image that runs on the robot

  • Over-the-air updates: Build and operate the OTA system that delivers new software to robots safely — staged rollouts, canarying, rollback, and verification

  • Model delivery: Treat compiled/exported models as first-class deployable artifacts, with versioning, validation, and the same delivery guarantees as the rest of the stack

  • Developer experience: Reduce the time between “I have an idea” and “it’s running on a robot” for local dev workflows, fast feedback loops, and clear failure signals when things break

What You’ll Bring

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on build infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, or software delivery

  • Hands-on experience with a modern build system (Bazel, Buck, CMake at scale, or similar) in a large multi-language codebase

  • Strong CI/CD background — designing pipelines, managing test infrastructure, and improving signal-to-noise as systems grow

  • Working knowledge of containers (Docker/OCI) and the practical tradeoffs around image building, layering, and runtime

  • Experience deploying software to production environments — whether cloud, embedded devices, fleets, or similar — with a real understanding of versioning, rollback, and safe rollout

  • Comfort working in a systems language (C++, Rust, or Go) and a scripting language (Python) — you’ll read and write both

  • Working comfort on Linux as a target deployment platform

Nice to Have

  • Direct experience with Bazel in a polyglot codebase (C++, Python, ML model toolchains)

  • Experience building or operating OTA update systems for embedded devices, vehicles, robots, or similar fleets

  • Experience packaging and deploying ML models — model registries, versioning, compiled/exported artifact pipelines

  • Familiarity with artifact signing, supply chain security, or reproducible builds

  • Background working alongside runtime, robotics or ML teams

At Sunday Robotics, we’re building technology shaped by real people — curious, creative, and diverse. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hold back unless they meet 100% of the criteria — we don’t want that to be the reason we miss out on great talent.

Redirects to Sunday's application page.

Other roles

More at Sunday.