Bright Machines

Platform Engineer

Bright Machines

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAssemblyAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonShell ScriptingTerraform

About the role

  • Bright Machines is transforming manufacturing with intelligent, software-driven automation.
  • We design and build scalable, secure infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to power automation solutions.
  • On-prem compute and networking; Cloud (AWS, Azure); Terraform (IaC); ArgoCD; Kubernetes; GitLab; Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry.
  • Our integrated solution includes on-prem infrastructure and Cloud-native software to operate and monitor robotic assembly lines.
  • This is an exciting opportunity to work with R&D teams designing software-defined automation solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
  • At least 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
  • Strong experience with physical infrastructure, including networking equipment and servers.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows.
  • Hands-on coding experience in Python and Shell scripting.
  • Solid understanding of Linux internals and system administration.
  • Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (self-hosted and managed), including Helm.
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  • Experience with bare-metal provisioning (MaaS or similar)