Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Ride & Fleet Services, Platform
Posted on 11/3/2023
Zoox

1,001-5,000 employees

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