Job Description:

Company Description

At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. Our mission is our guiding force; our culture is the DNA that makes us unique.

As a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), we have been expanding our innovations through technology to help make a difference in the world. For 25 years, human ingenuity has guided our journey to help solve some of healthcare's complex challenges.

We believe a great idea can come from anywhere-inclusion and mutual respect are vital to our culture. We value character grounded in integrity, a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and diverse experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and strive to achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's help to advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

The Core Technologies Engineering (CTE) group within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA, for a Staff Software Engineer - DevOps focusing on large-scale distributed systems to take our hybrid cloud platform to the next level. You will be technical lead in the development and expansion of our cloud platform which services 2000+ engineers by provisioning infrastructure as code, taking ownership of CI/CD to test deployments and automate rollbacks, and establishing best practices that can be adopted across our organization. This is a Staff role and you will be collaborating across a variety of teams to enable and provide technical leadership for our Robotic Platform CI/CD build systems, highly scalable Robot Simulation, and our Data Platform and MLOps needs.

A successful candidate must excel in a high-energy focused team environment, must have excellent communication skills, and must be able to balance independent production of results with the need to collaborate during planning, development, integration, and evaluation of research concepts and minimum viable products. The ability to learn existing systems rapidly and drive to creative-yet practical-solutions from rough requirements are essential in this position.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure platform spanning across AWS and our Data Center


• Use Infrastructure as Code and containerization to create immutable reproducible deployments and establish best practices to scale that IaC project in a maintainable way


• Own and ensure that internal and external SLA's meet and exceed expectations, System centric KPIs are continuously monitored


• Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring and operations of the overall platform


• Establish best practices for CI/CD environments and methodologies such as GitOps


• Analyze our AWS Resource usage to optimize for a balance of performance vs cost

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 8+ years of software development, DevOps, or Software automation experience with minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.


• 2+ years of Kubernetes experience focused on DevOps


• A deep understanding of CI/CD tools, processes and a strong desire to help teams release frequently to production with a focus on creating reliable high-quality results.


• Experience with Services/Tooling such as or similar to: Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Istio (Service Mesh)


• Strong background integrating continuous delivery(CD) with Kubernetes using tools such as Argo, GitLab, Spinnaker.


• Strong Git experience, development methodologies, trunk-based develop vs. git flow, etc.


• Experience working or developing Kubernetes autoscaling tools (ex. Vertical Pod Autoscaler, Cluster Autoscaler and/or the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler).


• Expertise with either AWS, GCP, Azure


• Strong end-to-end ownership and a good sense of urgency to enable proper self-prioritization

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD and Jenkins


• Deep understanding of AWS resources and their limitations/gotcha's


• Experience with MLOps and Data Tooling such as: KubeFlow, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Airflow


• Experience creating Kubernetes Operators


• Strong end-to-end ownership and a good sense of urgency to enable proper self-prioritization

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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Travel : None

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