Senior Software Engineer, Data Curation

Foxglove • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Foxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites. We’re seeking a highly skilled product and data-oriented Product Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our user interfaces, backend services and data processing pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software
• Significant professional experience building REST APIs using Typescript, Rust or similar backend languages (Go, Python).
• Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Familiarity with building user-facing interfaces in React
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Nice To Haves

• Robotics or AV experience
• Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)
• Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)

Responsibilities

• Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offload
• Providing low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data
• Building systems to provide timely analytics across multimodal data
• Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments

Benefits

• $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
• 401(k) matching up to 4%
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2× per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees