Full Stack Developer and Cloud Engineer

About the role

Agile Robots is seeking a senior developer to build and maintain an end-to-end data collection pipeline for humanoid robots. You will manage cloud infrastructure and backend services that support teleoperation devices and high-volume data streams. In this position, you will own the reliability and scalability of the data pipeline from the robot edge to long-term storage and analytics. You will collaborate closely with product teams and robotics engineers to translate operational requirements into robust technical solutions. A significant part of your work will involve designing systems that handle continuous, high-throughput data ingestion while maintaining strict integrity standards. You will be responsible for ensuring that backend services remain performant, secure, and observable under production loads. This role requires strong leadership in defining architecture, enforcing best practices, and mentoring engineers to raise the overall quality of the codebase.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs for managing sessions, robots, datasets, and user permissions.
• Manage data ingestion, upload reliability, buffering, and integrity checks for large-scale robot data.
• Architect cloud environments including storage, compute, networking, and security protocols.
• Integrate third-party SDKs, storage tools, and data labeling platforms.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and tracing systems while defining SLIs and SLOs.
• Enforce security standards such as IAM, secrets management, and auditability.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design documentation, and mentorship of junior staff.
• Design and implement resilient data pipelines that ensure no loss of critical telemetry under varying network conditions.
• Optimize database schemas and query strategies to support efficient access patterns for analytics and real-time operations.
• Coordinate with edge computing teams to align on data formats, protocols, and synchronization strategies.
• Implement automated deployment workflows that enable frequent, low-risk releases to production environments.
• Conduct performance testing and capacity planning to support scaling as robot deployments grow globally.
• Collaborate with data science and product teams to enable rapid experimentation and insight generation from collected data.
• Document system behaviors, operational runbooks, and interfaces to support long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with a history of owning complex systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and guide engineering teams.
• Backend proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go with experience building REST or gRPC APIs.
• Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database modeling and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, specifically regarding compute, object storage, and networking.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Ability to configure metrics and alerting via tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, or Datadog.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including fault tolerance, idempotency, and consistency models.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud data pipelines.
• Knowledge of WebSockets or WebRTC for streaming and operator interfaces.
• Background in time-series data, data lakes, Parquet, or MLOps tooling.
• Understanding of security compliance for sensitive data and multi-tenant permission models.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or shared libraries.

Practical notes

• Benefits include a corporate program providing 100 Euro net per month for health, mobility, or learning.
• The office features a rooftop terrace, free refreshments, and regular company events.
• Agile Robots is an international company with over 2300 employees globally and a diverse, multi-national workforce.
• This position is based in Munich at our headquarters, requiring presence in the office for key collaboration and planning activities.
• The engagement is for a permanent full-time role with standard working hours as defined by German labor law.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Germany without restrictions.
• Relocation support may be considered for exceptional candidates based on hiring team discretion and role requirements.