Software Engineer - Data Performance & Stability

Zoox•Boston, MA

19d

About The Position

Zoox is building advanced self-driving hardware and software solutions. To attain the utmost efficiency that the system demands, we need you - an expert who understands how to deal with telemetry data from a growing fleet of vehicles. You will be instrumental in finding & detecting performance-related trends and anomalies across the robot fleet. The Software Performance team’s mission is to analyze, optimize and provide guidance to the software and hardware teams in order to meet expected system performance and software stability targets. As an automation engineer within the Software Performance team, you will create automated monitoring and analysis for performance tooling into the software release process to identify fleet-wide trends or anomalies and put detailed performance data at the fingertips of performance experts for quick and efficient investigations. In this role, you will: Automate common workflows & processes for performance data storage and analysis. Contribute to new data products to enable Engineering and Operations teams to gain access to insights from our varied and complex autonomous vehicle fleet dataset. Make data more accessible to the rest of the software organization to get insights into stability and performance issues via standardized queries, dashboards, and automated alerts. Create custom data queries on a large pool of dense performance metrics and build automation flows to extract relevant log segments for efficient triage & investigation. Work cross-functionally to create automatic detection of anomalies in performance or stability metrics across the fleet and devise automatic triage pipelines to steer them to the best owners.

Requirements

3+ years of professional experience in software development or related fields and BS in computer science or related field
Proficient with building data pipelines that ingest very large amounts of data from vehicles and structure it in ways that is quick and easy to execute queries on
Strong knowledge of Python & SQL and continuous integration systems (Github/Gitlab CI, Jenkins, etc)
Savvy with efficient queries on data platforms such as DataBricks, Looker, and with ETL pipelines
Solid statistical inference skills, with the ability to communicate uncertainty appropriately to engineering and business stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Git and Bazel
Proficiency with LLMs and agentic AI for process automation
Experience with large-scale vehicle or device health telemetry

Responsibilities

Automate common workflows & processes for performance data storage and analysis.
Contribute to new data products to enable Engineering and Operations teams to gain access to insights from our varied and complex autonomous vehicle fleet dataset.
Make data more accessible to the rest of the software organization to get insights into stability and performance issues via standardized queries, dashboards, and automated alerts.
Create custom data queries on a large pool of dense performance metrics and build automation flows to extract relevant log segments for efficient triage & investigation.
Work cross-functionally to create automatic detection of anomalies in performance or stability metrics across the fleet and devise automatic triage pipelines to steer them to the best owners.