Apply on company website Remote Hybrid Full-time USD 164,000 – 220,000 / year

Bedrock Ocean Exploration is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Robotics & Cloud Infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Ensure reliability across all systems from autonomous underwater vehicles to customer data delivery, including onboard compute, operator systems, cloud pipelines, and platform services.
  • Develop and enhance infrastructure automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and self-recovery to minimize manual tasks during field operations and pipeline execution.
  • Design and improve observability systems with metrics, logging, tracing, and alerts to provide early, actionable insights for robotics and data teams across fleets and cloud services.
  • Reduce on-call workload by eliminating single points of failure, creating runbooks, and automating steps that rely on undocumented knowledge.
  • Participate in a shared on-call rotation covering robotics and cloud incidents during 12-hour shifts aligned with European and East Coast hours; lead and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.
  • Establish and monitor reliability metrics such as availability, data yield, and recovery time, collaborating with teams to achieve continuous-operations objectives.
  • Oversee AWS cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, networking, infrastructure as code, cost management, and security for data processing and platform workloads.
  • Enhance configuration management, deployment safety, and rollback processes at fleet and vehicle levels to ensure reliable and predictable field updates.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Richmond, California, East Coast

Team

small

Other

  • East Coast location is required to support on-call coverage during 12-hour shifts spanning European and East Coast business hours.
  • Travel to field deployments and Richmond headquarters is expected, approximately 5–15% of the time.
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship is mandatory.
  • Employment visas are not sponsored.
  • Eligibility to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance is required due to government and defense work nature.
  • An active Secret or higher clearance is not required for application but is strongly preferred for candidates who hold one.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship. Employment visas are not sponsored.

Job Details
Location Remote
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 164,000 – 220,000 / year
Department Software Team
Category DevOps & SRE
Posted 2 months ago
Application On company website
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Bedrock Ocean builds and operates autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that collect georeferenced ocean-floor data at commercial scale. We deliver bathymetric and imagery data products to customers through our own platform, and we’re scaling toward continuous, around-the-clock data collection campaigns spanning months at a time. Keeping vehicles in the water and data flowing reliably is a core engineering problem and this role owns the reliability of the systems on both ends of that pipeline. Headquartered in Richmond, California, Bedrock Ocean Exploration is building autonomous ocean intelligence that will enable the ocean economy to solve the world’s most pressing challenges in maritime security, infrastructure, energy, and climate. Our modular architecture, driven by Siren (autonomous underwater vehicles), Trident (command and control), and Mosaic (subsea data fusion), delivers entirely new intelligence capabilities for government and commercial partners. Missions mobilize from any vessel of opportunity in 24 to 72 hours, and our automated pipeline returns comprehensive insights in hours, not weeks like the incumbents, keeping crews safe on shore while cutting cost and time.
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