Staff Software Engineer - Instawork Robotics
Hybrid (Bengaluru)Full-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior/Staff Engineer in Bengaluru leading the technical execution for massive-scale physical AI training data platforms, owning end-to-end features and cross-functional mentorship within Instawork Robotics Labs (IRL).
Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Versatility: Seamlessly transition between frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Own features end-to-end, shipping with high quality.
- Platform Ownership: Lead development of Instawork Lens and Instawork Radiant, ensuring high-throughput data enrichment, labeling, and QA loops.
- Infrastructure & Video Piplines: Architect and scale cloud environments; manage AWS infrastructure and ECS services for video transcoding with observability across CPU, memory, network, and disk IOPS.
- Architect for Scale: Design data pipelines to securely process petabytes of global video and telemetry data without bottlenecks.
- AI-Leveraged Engineering: Use agentic models to accelerate delivery while guiding AI usage and ensuring architectural integrity.
- Cross-Functional Mentorship: Guide mid- and senior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, and networking
- Full-stack development experience (Python, Django, React or similar)
- Willingness to learn new languages/tools as needed
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, ECS/Docker, CloudWatch)
- Experience building scalable backend systems for data-heavy/high-throughput apps
- Startup/multi-stakeholder environment experience
- Passion for robotics and AI-driven engineering
Skills
Required:Full-stack developmentDistributed systemsCloud infrastructure
Benefits
- [Not specified in the description]
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Instawork
A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers.
Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.
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