Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
San Mateo, CA$100k - $300kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer to enhance performance, reliability, and maintainability of deployment-focused robotics software. Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining deployment infrastructure and back-end services, collaborating with ML, deployment, test, and security teams, defining technical roadmaps, and driving system architecture.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain deployment software infrastructure and back-end services (e.g., model training infrastructure, AI developer tools, metrics dashboards).
- Lead teams to develop reliable software systems with robust testing, metrics, and logging mechanisms.
- Write and review code, develop documentation, create capacity plans, and debug on robot hardware.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps and drive the direction of product and system architecture.
- Share an on-call rotation with the engineering team to ensure system reliability and quick issue resolution.
Qualifications
- BS, MS or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of industry experience.
- Proficiency developing higher-level languages (e.g. Python, C++, or Java).
- Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, and messaging systems.
- Knowledge of Linux OS fundamentals, memory management, and kernel.
- Experience learning software, frameworks, and APIs.
- Experience with enterprise security.
- Previous extensive work experience as a: Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, Linux Administrator, Database Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or similar.
Skills
Required:Deployment software infrastructureLeadership and collaboration
Last updated Jul 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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