Zoox

Senior Software Engineer, Robot Data Platform

Reposted Yesterday

Foster City, CA

Hybrid

219K-263K Annually

Senior level

Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Design • Manufacturing

Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that’s created a purpose-built robotaxi to give the world a better way to ride.

The Role

Design and maintain systems for processing vehicle data, ensuring data integrity on a large scale and mentoring junior engineers.

Summary Generated by Built In

Zoox is transforming transportation with a mission to build autonomous robotaxis from the ground up—delivering a safer, cleaner, more reliable, and enjoyable future for all.

The Robot Data Platform team, as part of the Data Infrastructure organization, builds and operates the systems that manage data generated by Zoox’s autonomous vehicle fleet. We design, scale, and maintain infrastructure that ingests, stores, and serves hundreds of petabytes of vehicle data, empowering machine learning, data science, software engineering, fleet management, and safety analysis across the company.

As a member of this team, you’ll work alongside world-class software engineers to solve complex challenges in large-scale distributed data platforms, systems, and pipelines, shaping how Zoox leverages data to advance autonomous transportation.

In this role, you will:

Design, develop, and maintain scalable systems for collecting, cataloging, storing, and processing petabytes of vehicle data
Architect robust log data storage solutions using AWS S3, and distributed systems to ensure data integrity and availability
Lead technical design discussions, create design documents, and drive architectural decisions for complex data platform features
Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling to ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines processing thousands of runs daily
Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish best practices for data platform development
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in data ingestion and storage systems, participating in on-call rotations

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience in building large-scale distributed cloud storage systems or data platforms
Proficiency in Python and C++, or similar languages, with emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code
Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including S3, Aurora, and EC2
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion and storage systems handling petabytes of data
Demonstrated strong ownership by driving projects from conception to completion and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams through clear communication.

Bonus Qualifications

Knowledge of data cataloging systems, metadata management, storage optimization, and data governance
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (such as Grafana, Cloudwatch)

Top Skills

Aurora

AWS

C++

Cloudwatch

Ec2

Grafana

Python

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The Company

HQ: Foster City, CA

2,900 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.

Why Work With Us

At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation.
From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.