Staff Software Engineer, Routing
Builds and scales backend systems and onboard modules for autonomous vehicle routing, optimizing algorithms, graphs, and infrastructure. Requires 8+ years experience, C++ proficiency, databases, cloud, and ML.
About the job
About the Work
- Build and scale backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team, including microservices, routing algorithms, road network graphs, monitoring and analytics infrastructure, and deployment pipelines.
- Work with product, strategy, and operations teams to design new user experiences and define product strategy and roadmap.
About You
- Technical excellence:
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
- Experience with large-scale complex algorithm problems, balancing correctness and performance.
- Proficient in C++ programming.
- Experience with databases: relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis), data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake).
- Familiar with RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery).
- Experience in training and inferencing ML models.
- Extensive experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS).
- Experience with Docker & Kubernetes.
- Wide-range of technical skills, quick learner.
- Passion for developer tooling.
- Ability to make right tradeoffs.
- User-focused, great communicator, impact-driven.
Bonus Points
- Experience with routing algorithms.
- Experience with map data and graph data structures.
- Experience with robotics.
- Experience with ETA modeling.
Compensation
Base pay range: $213,480 - $319,720, plus annual performance bonus, equity, and competitive benefits.
Skills
C++, Postgres, MySQL, Bigtable, Cassandra, Redis, BigQuery, Snowflake, gRPC, Kubernetes
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