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Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

OusterOttawa, Ontario, Canada | Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOnsite
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At Ouster, we build sensors and tools for engineers, roboticists, and researchers, so they can make the world safer and more efficient. We've transformed LIDAR from an analog device with thousands of components to an elegant digital device powered by one chip-scale laser array and one CMOS sensor. The result is a full range of high-resolution LIDAR sensors that deliver superior imaging at a dramatically lower price. Our advanced sensor hardware and vision algorithms are used in autonomous cars, drones and many other applications. If you’re motivated by solving big problems, we’re hiring key roles across the company and need your help!
Your role will primarily involve working on Ouster’s Blue City solution with the mission of making roads safer, reducing commute times, and cutting emissions. We develop software to provide cities with the data needed to better understand and improve their transportation network. Our small, tightknit, team consists of engineers with backgrounds in Transportation and Software Engineering, dedicated to this mission.Our solution is based on deep learning, machine vision, and lidar. The data we provide is used to effectively plan the transportation infrastructure of cities, coordinate traffic lights across road networks, and boost pedestrian and cyclist safety.

We want to alert cities to issues in a way that they can quickly take informed action.You will be responsible for designing and developing the backend infrastructure used for remotely configuring our systems across the world, streaming lidar and road user data for visualization and further processing, storing and retrieving analytics data, and for developing safety analytics and traffic optimization applications.

Job Responsibilities:


  • Develop and maintain clean, high-performance, and well tested code.
  • Design and implement features for Ouster’s Blue City products.
  • Assure the highest possible bar for SW quality and releases meeting customer’s expectations.
  • Demonstrate new products to stakeholders, participate in technical discussions, and respond to feedback graciously
  • Work together with the team and individually to architect and implement our cloud infrastructure and applications

Job Requirements:


  • BS or higher in computer science or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in coding
  • 5+ years of experience in distributed system design with focus on scalability
  • Relational databases (Postgres)
  • Designing usable and performant APIs
  • Cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
  • Strong coding skills in Python
  • Experience developing for Linux-based systems
  • Experience architecting cloud solutions and applications
  • A solid understanding of how to design, develop, test, and monitor production backend systems
  • Strong understanding of Cloud Security best practices and standards
  • Experience with Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform
  • Strong foundations in agile SW development

Bonus points:


  • Experience in the ITS industry or Transportation Engineering
  • Experience with React development
  • Past experience working with hardware products

We acknowledge the confidence gap at Ouster. You do not need to meet all of theserequirements to be the ideal candidate for this role.Ouster is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Ouster does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military status, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ouster also strives for a healthy and safe workplace, and prohibits harassment of any kind.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ouster considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Life at Ouster

At Ouster, we're developing advanced sensor hardware and vision algorithms for autonomous cars and drones. We're looking for software and hardware engineers interested in working on the systems that underpin modern robotics: high performance sensors, localization, object detection, tracking and classification. Our team is composed of engineers that wear many hats and enjoy building robots that cope with the messiness of the real world. All of us push code, some of us build hardware, and none of us wants to wait another decade for cars and drones to be driving themselves.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. World-class Internal Audit team2. Committed to recruiting and developing great talent3. Dogfriendly workplace4. Complimentary dinner catered nightly5. 15 vacation days/10 paid holidays annually; paid parental leave6. Pretax commuter or health care/dependent care accounts7. 401K match up to 4%8. Medical, vision and dental plans with premiums covered at 100% for the employee and 75% for dependents (Cigna or Kaiser)9. Customer Focus and Satisfaction10. High Level of Collaboration between Teams
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