# Staff Software Engineer, Routing

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $213k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** C++, Postgres, MySQL, Bigtable, Cassandra, Redis, BigQuery, Snowflake, gRPC, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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