# Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $165k – $208k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Linux, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, buildkite, Bazel, pytest, Terraform, Ansible, salt, APIs, Infrastructure As Code, device drivers
**Posted:** 2026-01-15

> Build and operate reliable infrastructure and testing services for autonomous-vehicle development. The role requires 5+ years supporting production services and SRE responsibilities, plus proficiency in Python or Golang and experience with automation, observability, CI/CD, and resilient infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Measure and maintain the uptime of services critical to autonomous-vehicle development, including testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.
- Support all phases of service delivery, including design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure the uptime, stability, accuracy, and usability of robot testing platforms.
- Collaborate with other teams to support adoption of testing frameworks and maintain key tests.
- Work with systems handling large data volumes, data-processing pipelines, and compute-intensive CPU and GPU workloads.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 5+ years supporting production services, participating in on-call rotations, and performing SRE responsibilities.
- Proficiency in Python or Golang.
- Experience building and managing infrastructure services.
- Experience writing system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, and developing CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building observability stacks, instrumentation, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana dashboards.
- Experience building software services, writing APIs for backend services, and owning and managing full-stack applications.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Linux system administration experience, including kernel troubleshooting and device-driver development.
- Continuous deployment and release-management experience.
- Experience with CI toolchains such as Buildkite and Bazel.
- Experience with test frameworks such as Pytest.
- Experience writing and managing infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt.

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