Senior Software Engineer, Rust

Foxglove • San Francisco, CA

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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 Rust focused Software Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience writing production software
• Experience with a systems programming language such as Rust, C++, C, Go, or Java.
• Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code.
• Able to quickly come up to speed with an async Rust codebase.
• Experience with binary data serialization or network communication protocols
• Experience shipping software in network-constrained environments
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles
• 1+ year experience using Rust professionally
• Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and/or Kubernetes

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
• Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments
• Building systems to manage petabytes of multi-modal data reliably and efficiently

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