Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Compute System

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

1d•$176,360 - $264,540

About The Position

Nuro is seeking a senior engineer to build and scale large-scale computing infrastructure in cloud and data-center environments. The system supports critical applications across the company, including machine-learning data pipelines, data discovery, simulation, and time-series multimedia log processing. The role focuses on building scalable, efficient, and reliable systems that connect foundational infrastructure with high-level job requests and make large-scale computations more accessible to autonomy and other infrastructure engineers. The engineer will design and develop BATES, a framework for orchestrating and executing large-scale workloads in cloud and on-premise clusters. They will collaborate with application teams across Nuro to provide robust, general-purpose tools and APIs, and improve workload efficiency and turnaround time by understanding application context, identifying bottlenecks, prioritizing work, and implementing solutions.

Requirements

Proven experience building and developing large-scale distributed applications, such as Kubernetes.
Ability to turn high-level requirements into a detailed, cohesive system design.
Self-motivation to identify opportunities for system improvement and drive positive change.
Willingness to deeply understand application logic across Nuro and go the extra mile.
Highly collaborative approach and care for creating the best possible user experience.
Ability to thrive in the ambiguity of a dynamic startup environment, or demonstrated aptitude for doing so.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with database technologies such as Redis, SQL, or NoSQL, and pub/sub systems.
Experience with hyperscalers, particularly Google Cloud Platform or other major providers.
Experience with workflow management tools or MapReduce frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Buildkite, Ray, or Dataflow.
Experience with Linux systems, such as CPU scheduling, memory management, and file systems.
Experience with data analysis, including defining metrics, running A/B testing, and building metric dashboards.
Experience with real-time monitoring frameworks such as Prometheus.
Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, reliable frameworks to orchestrate and execute large-scale workloads in cloud and on-premise clusters.
Collaborate with application teams across Nuro to provide robust, generic tools and APIs that accelerate development of business-critical applications.
Improve workload efficiency and turnaround time by analyzing application context, identifying inefficiencies and bottlenecks, prioritizing tasks, and implementing solutions.
Turn high-level requirements into detailed, cohesive system designs.
Identify opportunities for system improvement and drive positive change.