Robotics DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Formic's Engineering Team as a RobotOps (DevOps) Engineer and play a key role in designing, developing, and enhancing cutting-edge industrial robotic systems. You will help define and build monitoring infrastructure, create strategies and implement tools to ensure system availability, partner with customer IT teams for seamless system integration, monitor and resolve system issues, support infrastructure provisioning, respond to automated monitoring alerts, and monitor dashboards for anomalies. This position requires a Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience, 5+ years of DevOps/IT experience, experience with physical hardware, and experience partnering with external IT departments. A deep understanding of Linux, physical networking, and AWS infrastructure is also necessary. Formic offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity, healthcare coverage, additional insurance benefits, an EAP, paid parental leave, a 401(k), a home office stipend, monthly cell phone reimbursement, flexible time off, and paid company holidays.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience and training
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and/or IT role with similar responsibilities
• Experience working with physical hardware is required (e.g. IT or DevOps support of cameras, television, automotive products, etc.)
• Experience partnering with external IT departments and customers
• Deep understanding of Linux
• Solid understanding of physical networking
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure, including CloudFormation or Terraform

Responsibilities

• Help define and build our Monitoring infrastructure, enabling us to scale our growing number of devices and deployments in the field
• Create a strategy and implement tools, processes, and metrics to drive Formic monitoring structure toward 99.999% availability
• Partner with customer IT teams to create tools to ensure smooth integration of our systems with customer networks
• Monitor existing systems and resolve issues as necessary
• Support provisioning of Monitoring infrastructure on new deployments
• Respond to issues detected by our automated monitoring infrastructure
• Monitor Grafana dashboards for any anomalies

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience or exposure to Robotics or IoT is a big plus
• Knowledge of Python is a plus

Benefits

• Equity in Formic: Own a meaningful stake in a fast-growing Series A startup, backed by leading global investors
• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 99% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, with 75% coverage for dependents, provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield and Guardian
• Additional Fully Covered Insurance Benefits: FSA & DCFSA, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability through Guardian, all 100% employer-paid
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Fully funded by Formic and provided via Guardian, offering support when you need it most
• Paid Parental Leave: Generous parental leave to support our employees and their growing families
• Company-sponsored 401(k): Invest in your future with our company-backed retirement savings plan
• Home Office Stipend: A one-time allowance for fully remote employees to set up your ideal at-home or on the road work environment
• Monthly Cell-Phone Reimbursement: Monthly stipend toward phone and internet expenses
• Flexible Time-Off: Take the time you need, when you need it, supported by our flexible PTO policy
• Paid Company Holidays: Celebrate important dates with paid time off