Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
AeroVect · Atlanta, GA
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Jul 20, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level infrastructure engineering role focused on building and scaling the systems that underpin an autonomous ground-handling platform. Day-to-day work spans CI/CD pipeline development, cloud infrastructure management on AWS, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and tooling to support both simulation and real-world robotic deployments. The role also carries a mentorship and technical strategy component, making it best suited to a senior engineer with a robotics or distributed-systems background.
Staff level · 7+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–80
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title is explicitly 'Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure' and the role carries cross-team technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural strategy responsibilities — consistent with a Staff-level band, not merely Senior.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … or a related field' but does not explicitly reject candidates without a degree or state 'required'; however, it is listed under the hard 'You Have' requirements section. Given the 'or a related field' framing and common industry practice of accepting equivalent experience, the degree requirement is set to None.
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI are listed together as interchangeable examples of CI/CD platforms under the required 'You Have' section; Jenkins is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Terraform and CloudFormation are listed as interchangeable options under the required section; Terraform is used as the primary name with CloudFormation as an alternative.
ROS and ROS2 are listed together ('ROS/ROS2'); treated as interchangeable variants of the same platform.
Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack appear under the 'We Prefer' section as examples of monitoring/logging/alerting tools — all marked preferred. Grafana and ELK Stack are also emitted as separate preferred skills since they are distinct tools.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Location is not explicitly stated; AeroVect is headquartered in San Francisco, CA — CBSA assigned accordingly. The posting does not indicate remote eligibility.
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