Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source & commercial tools to accelerate it.
We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.
About the role
Foxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites.We’re seeking a highly skilled software engineer - data infrastructure with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces.Challenges:
- Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offload
- Providing low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data
- Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments
Location
We're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.For this position, we're looking for someone located on the West Coast, USA.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years experience writing production software
- 1+ year experience deploying Rust in production
- Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code
- Experience with binary data serialization or network communication protocols
- Experience shipping software in resource-constrained environments
- Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
- Comfortable participating in on-call rotations
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
Bonus points
- Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and/or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with common object store APIs such as GCS, AWS S3, etc.
What we offer
- For this role we offer $175,000 to $215,000 salary
- Work remotely
- $300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace
- Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
- Competitive Medical coverage, Dental/Vision plans (US & Canada)
- 401k matching (US full time employees only)
- 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
- All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
