Engineering Lead - Platform & SRE

Engineering Lead – Platform & SRE

Location: Santa Clara, California

About Kerrigan Automation

We are building the next generation of heterogeneous automation systems for manufacturing.

Our mission is to operationalize complex AI and robotics workloads across diverse

environments. We are looking for a specialist to bridge the gap between high-level software and

the & “iron” on the factory floor.

The Role

As the Engineering Lead for Platform, you own the “how” of our delivery. You bridge the gap

between code and runtime, ensuring our systems are deployable anywhere—from an

ephemeral cloud cluster for a sales demo to a ruggedized Industrial PC (IPC) on a factory floor.

You will build the foundation that enables both internal developers and external customers to

move fast and with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

● Hybrid Infrastructure: Architect a unified deployment model using Pulumi and

Kubernetes that spans AWS/GCP/Azure and on-premise bare metal.

● Turnkey Hardware: Lead the effort to package our software into hardware solutions

(Industrial PCs and rack-based deployments).

● CI/CD Leadership: Build next-gen pipelines in GitHub Actions that handle complex

builds, including future Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.

● Reliability: Define the observability and operation standards (Prometheus, Grafana, OIDC)

for our “Application Cells”

Requirements

● Experience: 6+ years in SRE/DevOps

● K8s Mastery: Deep knowledge of K8s internals, CNIs, and multi-cluster management.

● Automation: Expert in Pulumi or Terraform, and Helm.

● Systems Thinking: Proficiency in Go and a strong grasp of Linux networking and

certificate management.

● Edge Knowledge: Experience with “Edge” or on-premise software delivery is a massive

plus.