Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Rhoda AI

$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering
  • Proficient in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases in production
  • Familiar with operating data warehouses and large-scale object storage
  • Strong backend development skills in Python or Go
  • Knowledge of distributed systems concepts
  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar)

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for data collection and model training
  • Ensure reliability and availability of core infrastructure systems
  • Develop backend services and APIs for internal and customer use
  • Identify and resolve performance issues across data stack
  • Collaborate with research teams for scalable model training solutions
  • Support robotics teams with low-latency backend services
  • Build observability tools for proactive issue detection

Benefits

  • Opportunity to significantly impact infrastructure crucial for AI and robotics
  • Work at the cutting edge of cloud systems and AI technology
  • Be part of a small team with direct influence on architectural decisions
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the systems that power our robotics and AI platform. You'll own the infrastructure that collects training data, keeps our robots running in the field, and trains and evaluates our models - designing for high reliability and low latency across every layer. The systems you build will be the backbone of what we ship.

What You'll Do
  • Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting data collection pipelines, robot operations, and model training and evaluation workflows
  • Own the reliability, availability, and latency of core infrastructure including databases, data warehouses, and object storage systems
  • Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that expose infrastructure capabilities to internal teams and customers
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the data and compute stack to meet latency and throughput requirements
  • Partner with research teams to understand model training and evaluation infrastructure needs and translate them into scalable solutions
  • Collaborate with robotics teams to ensure field operations are reliably supported by low-latency backend services
  • Build observability tooling - metrics, logging, alerting - to proactively detect and respond to infrastructure issues
  • Define and enforce infrastructure best practices around security, cost management, and scalability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response and postmortems


What We're Looking For
  • 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), including compute, networking, storage, and managed database services
  • Hands-on experience managing relational and NoSQL databases in production, including performance tuning, replication, and failover
  • Experience operating data warehouse solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) and large-scale object storage (e.g., S3, GCS)
  • Solid backend development skills - comfortable writing and maintaining services in Python, Go, or a similar language
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, availability, fault tolerance, and latency trade-offs
  • Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes or equivalent platforms
  • Proven ability to debug and resolve complex production incidents under pressure


Nice to Have (But Not Required)
  • Experience building infrastructure for ML workloads - GPU cluster management, distributed training frameworks, or model serving pipelines
  • Familiarity with robotics or embedded systems backends, including real-time telemetry or command-and-control infrastructure
  • Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines using tools like Kafka, Flink, or Spark
  • Background working with time-series databases (e.g., InfluxDB, TimescaleDB) for sensor or operational data
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
  • Track record of building multi-tenant infrastructure that serves diverse customer and internal stakeholder needs simultaneously
  • Experience building self-service infrastructure platforms that reduce engineering toil for research or product teams


Why This Role
  • Own the infrastructure layer that everything else runs on - from robot field ops to model training - with direct, measurable impact on reliability and research velocity
  • Work at the intersection of cloud systems and physical AI, building backends that support both frontier model training and real humanoids operating in the world
  • Foundational role on a small team where your architectural decisions shape the platform the entire company scales on

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