Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Ride & Fleet Services, Platform
Posted on 11/3/2023
Self driving car robotics company
Company Overview
Zoox is reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. The company is building the infrastructure for self-driving cars.
AI & Machine Learning
Automotive & Transportation
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$1.2B
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Foster City, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↑ 5%1 year growth
↑ 23%2 year growth
↑ 79%Locations
San Mateo, CA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Apache Kafka
Docker
Elasticsearch
Java
Kotlin
Postgres
REST APIs
SQL
Terraform
Kubernetes
Python
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Software Engineering
Requirements
- A strong bias towards shipping working, well tested software
- Passionate about optimizing systems for maximum efficiency and resilience
- Extensive experience with design and implementation of backend services
- Experience with Kotlin or Java, Python, REST APIs and SQL
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Deeply cares about monitoring and diagnosing issues of production systems
Responsibilities
- Build out and scale up our robotaxi orchestration service and its key APIs that serve internal and external users
- Use existing monitoring, observability and stress-test tools to identify performance improvements and help implement them
- Iteratively improve monitoring and observability as our traffic grows
- Work closely with our Site Reliability Engineering team to optimally configure our services
- Identify key reliability risks and propose solutions to reduce them
- Work with our Security team to improve our security posture by managing dependencies, developing strong security practices and resolving identified issues
- Drive towards a culture of high test coverage and work closely with our Software Development Engineering in Test team members
- Audit, control and minimize privacy concerns to upkeep compliance
Desired Qualifications
- Degree in computer science or related degree
- Experience with Spring Boot based microservice architectures, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes or Docker
- Recent experience in programming languages such as Python or Kotlin
- Knowledgeable with privacy considerations and how to implement privacy best practices
- A drive towards building secure systems
- Experience optimizing SQL queries
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, such as Helm or Terraform
- Experience with event driven architecture and Kafka
- Ability to leverage monitoring and metrics tools such as Prometheus/Grafana