About the role
We are seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to scale our data collection, monitoring, and vehicle infrastructure to support our growing fleet of autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our platform and autonomy teams to design and deliver infrastructure solutions that directly impact autonomy software development, issue triage, and deployment of AVs to new customer sites.This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your work will enable reliable data pipelines, scalable CI systems, and efficient deployments to production environments.
This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Santa Clara, CA office!
What you'll do
Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingestion, aggregation, and presentation of data from our fleet of live autonomous trucks, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Design and implement solutions for upgrading and deploying on-board vehicle infrastructure and AV stack software to production vehicles with minimal downtime.
Collaborate with autonomy and platform teams to deliver scalable CI pipelines that automate the development, testing, and release of AV software.
Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions (e.g., Terraform) to manage setup and teardown of environments supporting operations at customer-facing sites.
Work with operations teams to coordinate and execute deployments to new customer sites.
Develop and manage scalable deployment of in-house simulation software, integrating scenario-based simulation testing into CI pipelines to validate AV software before release.
What we're looking for
7+ years of experience in a similar infrastructure engineering role.
Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
Hands-on experience with Docker and related tools (e.g., Docker Compose, Kaniko).
Experience deploying to Kubernetes and managing packages via Helm.
Knowledge of relational and time-series databases (e.g., Postgres, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB).
Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Argo, Airflow).
Proven track record managing upgrades and rollbacks of customer-facing SaaS environments.
Scripting expertise in Python and Bash.
Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
Working knowledge of CI/CD solutions such as GitLab CI or Jenkins is a plus.
Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000
More about Gatik
Founded in 2017, Gatik has grown into a commercial force in autonomous freight, operating trucks daily in live customer networks across the United States and Canada. We're headquartered in Santa Clara, California, but our impact is felt on the roads and in the supply chains that keep essential goods moving for some of the biggest companies in North America.
Our trucks do some of the most demanding work in freight, running high-frequency, time-sensitive routes between distribution centers and stores, where reliability matters every single day. For our customers, that means more capacity, better service and products arriving where they need to be, when they need to be there.
Behind it all is AI-first technology built from the ground up for autonomous trucking, capable of navigating highways and surface streets and tackling the complexity of real-world logistics at scale.
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Recent media coverage
TechCrunch: Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal
Reuters: Gatik secures $200 million in funding as autonomous freight market accelerates
Bloomberg: Driverless Trucks Can Save Lives on America's Roads
PepsiCo website: PepsiCo and Gatik announce multi-year agreement to deploy autonomous freight in North America
Wall Street Journal: Driverless Trucks Are Here - and They’re Delivering Bags of Doritos
CBS News: Pepsi deploys self-driving delivery trucks
Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million
Forbes: Hundreds’ Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads
CNBC-TV18: No more test runs: Gatik says driverless trucks are now a real, money-making business
Forbes: Gatik And Loblaw Announce Largest Commercial Deployment Of AV Trucks
Taking care of our team
At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.
We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
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