
Wandelbots is a robotics company focused on revolutionizing industrial automation with software-driven solutions. Their flagship product, Wandelbots NOVA, is a robot operating system that offers agnostic control across various robot vendors, enabling seamless integration and optimization of automation strategies. The platform emphasizes ease of use, allowing for faster deployment, lower total cost of ownership, and future-proof scalability and flexibility. Wandelbots' ecosystem supports custom applications with easy UIs, simulation and optimization, and monitoring with machine learning. They aim to democratize robotics, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes by simplifying human-robot interaction through user-centric design and cutting-edge technology.

Wandelbots is a robotics company focused on revolutionizing industrial automation with software-driven solutions. Their flagship product, Wandelbots NOVA, is a robot operating system that offers agnostic control across various robot vendors, enabling seamless integration and optimization of automation strategies. The platform emphasizes ease of use, allowing for faster deployment, lower total cost of ownership, and future-proof scalability and flexibility. Wandelbots' ecosystem supports custom applications with easy UIs, simulation and optimization, and monitoring with machine learning. They aim to democratize robotics, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes by simplifying human-robot interaction through user-centric design and cutting-edge technology.
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: Dresden, Germany
Product focus: No-code, hardware-agnostic robotics software (Wandelbots NOVA)
Total funding (reported): ≈ $122–123M
Typical customers: Automotive and manufacturing companies
Industrial automation — simplifying programming, integration and operation of industrial robots across vendors.
2017
Manufacturing
84,000,000
Reported Series C in January 2022
30,000,000
Reported Series B in June 2020
6,800,000
Reported Series A in December 2018 (amount reported in EUR)
“Insight Partners, M12 (Microsoft), Next47, EQT Ventures, 83North, Atlantic Labs, SquareOne Venture Capital”
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Your mission As a DevOps Engineer at Wandelbots, the mission for you and your team is: Build, run, and own a reliable and easy-to-use operating system and infrastructure, that will be used to deploy the Wandelbots solutions. Provide proper testing and documentation and have a close eye on security-related topics for industry IT.
The team is planning, developing, and releasing the operating system as well as corresponding central infrastructure that our application developers rely on to deploy our products for customers. Working closely with peers both in the team and beyond, getting a good understanding of customer demands, and taking responsibility are key for the team. Providing support for their product comes as a natural part of the team's DevOps mindset.
An open mind that allows you to learn new things, but also teach your knowledge to others is a huge plus. You will have dedicated time to learn and experiment. You will work with on-premise and cloud services alike.
In a Typical Product Iteration, You Will
gather and analyze requirements
provide architecture, concepts and implementation of components like:
operating system
container orchestration
tooling and cloud services
remote and on-site management solutions
engineer and implement monitoring and auditing solutions
automate the build- and continuous-delivery process
train and onboard other departments and developers alike
operate production systems for customers
Your profile As a DevOps Engineer, you will get in touch with different technologies and adapt to upcoming solutions. We are looking for someone who is interested in "the new stuff", but who also has an eye on "ready for production".
You are awesome if
Kubernetes Administration: Hands-on experience with setting up, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
Experience with specific Azure Services:
solid knowledge on authentication with OIDC: setup an identity providers, preferably Azure Entra ID
Azure ARC: manage on premise devices
AKS Edge Essentials: managing on-premise Kubernetes clusters
Advanced Networking Knowledge
Experience establishing connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments
Ability to support proxy configurations in restricted network environments (limited outbound access)
Familiarity with relevant Azure networking services e.g. Azure VPN Gateway and Site-to-site VPN
Operational Excellence: Experience in setting up and using Observability Stack for logs, metrics and alerting with Grafana
relevant Azure Cloud certifications (e.g. Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert - Certifications )
Your German is on a conversational level
You are able to name at least five robots
Why us? Make an impact! Work on an innovative, deep tech product that adds value to the robotics world and to society! Become a crucial part of something new, big and exciting where you can truly make an impact!
Our teams inspire! Cross-functional communication is key. You'll get to know many of your 100+ colleagues. Collaborate with great people on our international teams who value knowledge sharing and unique ways of doing things!
Be authentic! Work in a value-driven environment where everything may not be perfect, but we're working on it! Your feedback is required while you receive feedback and appreciation for your work!
Choose your flexibility! Work remotely from all around Europe or in our beautiful HQ in Dresden. We live flexible working hours, according to your personal needs and those of your team! If you live far away, we offer mobility support for your Dresden job ticket.
Help others! You can have up to 3 days of volunteer time off to help your favorite charity.
Develop yourself! We offer training and mental health opportunities so that you can develop both mentally and professionally.
And there is even more! Enjoy our free lunch, snacks and drinks, team events, 30 days of annual vacation + additional rest during Christmas season until New Year. If your child gets sick, we assure that a 100% of your usual earnings will be paid while you take care of your little one.
About Us EASY-TO-USE-ROBOTICS FOR EVERYONE Imagine a world with more room to unleash our unique cognitive strengths at work. A world where all people – whether craftsmans, blue-collars worker or engineers – have access to automation technologies that perform inhuman, monotonous and high-precision tasks much more efficiently than we do.
At Wandelbots, we're fundamentally reshaping the way to work with robots. We eliminate the complexity and develop easy-to-use solutions to speed up automation and empower everyone to work with industrial robots and beyond.
Mission 2017 founded, Wandelbots employs more than 100 people from 14 countries today. From our headquarters in Dresden Germany, we are giving our heart and soul to follow our mission, to empower everybody to easily work with robots.
Our Culture Wandelbots’ team culture is deeply driven by our purpose and values. We love autonomy, high fives, and every kind of cake. We celebrate team efforts and learning moments. We grow through feedback and honor kindness and empathy. We build waterslides and invent anti-racism campaigns. We are creative, innovative and blessed with a can-do attitude. We truly believe that robots love people, so we just do love them back.