Software Engineer, Distributed Compute System

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

15h

About The Position

Nuro is seeking senior engineers to build and scale its large-scale computing infrastructure in the cloud and data center. This system is fundamental to critical business applications such as machine learning data pipelines, data discovery, simulation, and time-series multimedia log processing. The role involves creating a scalable, efficient, and reliable system that connects fundamental infrastructure with high-level job requests, making large-scale computations more accessible to autonomy and other infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

Proven experience in building and developing large-scale distributed applications (e.g., Kubernetes).
Self-motivated to identify opportunities for system improvement and drive positive change.
Ability to turn high-level requirements into a detailed, cohesive system design.
Willingness to deeply understand application logic across Nuro and a passion for going the extra mile.
Highly collaborative and care about creating the best possible user experience.
Start-up DNA: Demonstrated ability to thrive in the ambiguity of a dynamic, start-up environment or the DNA to do so.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, reliable frameworks like BATES to orchestrate and execute large-scale workloads in cloud and on-premise clusters.
Collaborate with application teams throughout Nuro to provide robust, generic tools and APIs that accelerate their development of business-critical applications.
Optimize workload efficiency and turnaround time by deeply understanding and analyzing application context to identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks, prioritize tasks, and implement innovative solutions.