Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States

8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software

Significant professional experience using Go or Rust

Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads

Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms

Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs

Familiarity with Kubernetes

Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Robotics or AV experience

Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)

Responsibilities You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces

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

Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Go

For this role we offer $185,000 to $200,000 salary

Work remotely

$300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

Competitive equity grant in a Series A company

Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents (US full time employees only)

401k matching (US full time employees only)

All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year

Qualifications 8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software

Significant professional experience using Go or Rust

Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads

Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms

Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs

Familiarity with Kubernetes

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

Robotics or AV experience

Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)

Responsibilities You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces

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

Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Go

Benefits For this role we offer $185,000 to $200,000 salary

Work remotely

$300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

Competitive equity grant in a Series A company

Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents (US full time employees only)

401k matching (US full time employees only)

4 weeks vacation, plus holidays

All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year

About the role

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 Backend 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.

Challenges:

• 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

Our technical stack includes:

• Node.js (TypeScript)

• PostgreSQL

• Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Go

• Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP

• Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

Location

We're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.

For this position, we're looking for someone in North America.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software

• Significant professional experience using Go or Rust

• Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads

• Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms

• Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs

• Familiarity with Kubernetes

• 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

Bonus points

• Robotics or AV experience

• Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)

• Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)

What we offer

• For this role we offer $185,000 to $200,000 salary

• Work remotely

• $300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

• Competitive equity grant in a Series A company

• Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents (US full time employees only)

• 401k matching (US full time employees only)

• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays

• All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year Company information

At Foxglove, we’re building powerful tools to accelerate robotics development. We believe that robotics will have a massive impact on our daily lives and the world economy over the coming decade, and that better quality software tooling will significantly accelerate this trend. Our team’s years of experience working in the robotics and self-driving industries means we are uniquely positioned to bring the advanced tools built in-house at larger companies to the increasing number of startups in this space, across a wide range of verticals.Our first product, Foxglove Studio, is an open source visualization and diagnosis platform, specifically designed for working with robotics and sensor data. It allows you to easily inspect sensor inputs such as images, point clouds, and time series data, via a highly customizable 2D & 3D environment.

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