Software Engineer, Robot Data Platform

Posted 11 Days Ago
Foster City, CA
Hybrid
175K-230K 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, build, and maintain scalable systems and pipelines to ingest, catalog, store, and serve petabytes of vehicle data. Own feature design, implement monitoring and operational tooling, troubleshoot production issues, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and reliability.
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:

  • Take end-to-end ownership of design, development, and maintenance of scalable systems for collecting, cataloging, storing, and processing petabytes of vehicle data
  • Own the development and scaling of robust log data storage solutions using AWS S3, and distributed systems to ensure data integrity and availability
  • Drive the technical design for assigned features, creating detailed design documents, and actively contributing to broader team design discussions
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling to ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines processing thousands of runs daily
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in data ingestion and storage systems, participating in on-call rotations

Qualifications

  • 5+ 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
  • Experience contributing to large-scale data ingestion and storage systems handling petabytes of data
  • Demonstrated ability to take full ownership of project components, driving them from implementation through to production while collaborating effectively with senior leads

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

Amazon Aurora
Amazon Ec2
AWS
Aws S3
C++
Cloudwatch
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.

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