Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job description

We are searching for a Senior Backend/Infrastructure Software Engineer to help us develop AI-based autonomous industrial robotic solutions and integrate them with our customers’ complex software management environments. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy the critical infrastructure needed to support a range of industrial automation applications. In this role, you will partner with the Machine Learning and Robot Control Software teams to craft an efficient software platform and data pipeline that supports our core backend systems. At OSARO we develop solutions to endow industrial robots with the level of autonomy needed to perform an unprecedented variety of complex pick and place tasks leveraging sophisticated robot control and neural network-based perception algorithms. You are passionate about what you build, you feel a strong sense of ownership, and you love dynamic challenges. You care deeply about your team, you’re direct and you believe in doing what you say. The above full-time position is available immediately. You should be willing to move to the SF Bay Area. ### What You'll Be Doing - Contributing to a variety of projects from diagnosing network bottlenecks to building OSARO’s cloud model training and data pipeline infrastructure - Building backend systems to manage and support our growing fleet of autonomous robots - Building and managing compute clusters for training our machine learning models - Developing and maintaining the backend for internal and customer-facing services - Supporting and collaborating closely with other teams across the organization to diagnose and fix issues as they arise ### Experience and Skills You'll Need - BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field with equivalent experience and 3-10 years of experience - Knowledge of distributed and micro-service systems - Experience using REST APIs - Experience programming in Python, Go, or Rust - Strong familiarity with Linux and shell scripting/tooling - Experience with Docker and deploying Kube clusters - Experience with deploying services on GCP or other clouds - Good knowledge of databases and experience with building and managing data processing pipelines at scale - Knowledge of fundamental networking concepts and ability to debug and diagnose network issues, deploy VPNs, proxies and tunnels ### Bonus if You Have - Direct experience working with industrial robotics applications. - A track record of building and delivering distributed systems. - Experience with Terraform. - Experience working with large data sources and data pipelines. - Experience with machine learning frameworks and/or orchestration tools. ### Technology We Use - Docker, Kubernetes, Helm - BigQuery, CloudSpanner, PostgreSQL, Dataflow - Dataflow, PubSub - Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack - Tensorflow, PyTorch - gRPC/protobuf - Rust, Python, C/C++