Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable pipelines for telemetry, logs, sensor data, and cloud-software ingestion and processing.
• Develop and maintain robot-side data ingestion agents for high-volume collection in low-connectivity environments.
• Develop data formats and protocols optimized for transmitting, storing, and querying recordings, sensor data, and telemetry.
• Build and maintain observability systems using Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, and related tools for real-time fleet monitoring and analytics.
• Prepare high-volume, high-velocity data for analysis using Spark, Kafka, or equivalent technologies.
• Build and optimize internal tools for business intelligence, long-horizon fleet analytics, and forecasting using AWS S3, Athena, SageMaker, and related services.
• Improve data collection and processing from robot sensors and edge devices through IoT integration.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud-based data platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and proficiency with big-data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Beam, or Flink.
• Experience with Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg, Avro, Protobuf, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, metrics, tracing, and logging systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python and a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Robotics, autonomous vehicle, sensor-heavy workload, IoT, edge computing, or embedded-device experience is preferred.
• Data catalog experience with DataHub, Amundsen, or Databricks Unity Catalog and experience with Databricks or Kubernetes are preferred.
• Experience with Bazel, Blaze, C++, Rust, MCAP, ROS, Rerun, or related robot-data and build systems is preferred.
• Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Fully remote, with hybrid work available for candidates within commuting distance of the Salem, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; or Fremont, California offices.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
• Company stock options and company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Benefits are available starting on the first day of employment.
• Employee Assistance Program, paid parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement, and eligible-role relocation assistance.
• Flexible or unlimited PTO for exempt employees, or 10 vacation days and paid sick leave for non-exempt employees; both receive 12 company holidays including a winter shutdown.
• Catered lunches four times per week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh offices.
• Eligible roles may receive an annual discretionary bonus.
• U.S.-based role requiring current authorization to work in the United States.