Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Infrastructure
About The Position
Zoox's Core Data Infrastructure team is looking for a passionate software engineer to support our robot data transmission pipeline at scale across numerous cities. Your contributions will be critical to bringing our service to production. Responsibilities will cover high-bandwidth logging (several GB/min), data offload telemetry, large-scale data transmission and high performance networking. Great candidates will be comfortable working at our headquarters, in the field at Zoox depots, and occasionally in the vehicles themselves. Candidates will do daily software feature development, while regularly supporting operational teams and network planning with our network operations team. Critical thinking, system design and an architectural mindset will be essential to being successful in this role. In this role, you will: Develop software both on and off the robot to maximize system throughput when transmitting data Work with key stakeholders to develop initial data infrastructure required for landing in new cities Architect long-term network infrastructure design for permanent robot depots Incorporate operational feedback to mature existing offload systems Design software for ~100x growth of our fleet to support rapid expansion through the next several years
Requirements
- BS in computer science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience and 7+ years of experience
- Strong written communication skills and ability to build consensus across multiple teams
- Strong Python experience and comfort working in a language without automatic memory management (e.g., C or C++)
- Linux systems knowledge: networks, filesystems, devices, etc.
- Experience with a cloud service provider with object storage (eg., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage)
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity working hands-on with high performance networking and compute (100G+ Networking, WAN networks, high performance server deployment)
- Experience dealing with data volumes at a Petabyte+ scale
Responsibilities
- Develop software both on and off the robot to maximize system throughput when transmitting data
- Work with key stakeholders to develop initial data infrastructure required for landing in new cities
- Architect long-term network infrastructure design for permanent robot depots
- Incorporate operational feedback to mature existing offload systems
- Design software for ~100x growth of our fleet to support rapid expansion through the next several years
Benefits
- paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
- unpaid time off
- Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
- Amazon RSUs
- health insurance
- long-term care insurance
- long-term and short-term disability insurance
- life insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
