Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

Want to work on Software-Defined Defense? At Apex.AI, we develop safety-certified software for mobility systems and intelligent machines. Our products power applications in automotive, trucking, robotics, aerospace, agriculture, industrial automation, and defense systems.

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and scale Apex.AI's build and release systems. You will architect and implement our build and release system solutions, which impact developer productivity company-wide and ensure that customers receive high-quality products in a timely manner.

In this role, you will work directly with European defense customers and internal product teams to design, build, deploy, and Apex.Alan. You will help customers bring real-world systems to production while contributing improvements and features back into our core platform. Find out more about Apex.Alan here and here.

This role is located in our Munich office. Authorization to work in Germany and German language skills are required.

What You Bring - B.S. or higher degree in a technical field with 5+ years of relevant work experience

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Proven experience working with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP

- Proven experience maintaining a cross-platform build system

- Proven experience managing CI/CD pipelines

- Proven ability to script in Python and Starlark

- Proven experience building C/C++ projects with Bazel

- Familiarity with GitLab or GitHub

- Experience navigating Linux-based systems and tools in a terminal

- Excellent troubleshooting skills

- Excellent communication skills

- German language skills

Nice To Have - Experience with infrastructure management tools such as Terraform

- Experience with Bazel internals

- Familiarity with releasing code and binaries to customers

- Familiarity with cross-compilation

- Experience with the usage of CMake

- Experience developing Bazel infrastructure

Apex.AI is an international software company specializing in the development of safety-certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for mobility systems, aiming to accelerate the transition to software-defined vehicles and mobility. Founded in 2017 by Jan Becker and Dejan Pangercic, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Munich, Stuttgart, Gothenburg, Tokyo, and Pangyo. To date, Apex.AI has raised over $75 million USD from world-class venture, financial and strategic investors including AGCO, Airbus Ventures, Canaan, Continental AG, Daimler Truck, HELLA Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, LG Electronics, Lightspeed, Orillion, Toyota Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital and ZF.

The company’s flagship product, Apex.OS, consists of two core components: Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida.

- Apex.Grace is an application runtime framework in the form of a software development kit (SDK). It provides a robust framework for developing real-time, reliable, and safe applications. Core APIs are based on ROS 2 APIs with numerous extensions enabling real-time execution, reliable performance, deployment into large fleets, system state management, safety, security, and much more. It is safety-certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D.