Staff Backend Engineer, Robotics
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Staff Backend Engineer, Robotics

Foxglove Technologies

Job Location : San Francisco,CA, USA

Posted on : 2025-09-12T13:29:31Z

Job Description :

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 and 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

We are looking for a highly experienced, product-minded Full Stack Engineer to join our small, skilled, and fast-moving team.

We use full stack TypeScript, with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend. Shipping features will require you to contribute across the stack.

Take ownership of our REST API, client libraries, and ensure a seamless API-first developer experience

End-to-end feature ownership, interacting with customers and our community to understand their needs

Expand your knowledge of the robotics and self-driving industries

Work alongside an experienced team on a cutting edge product

Location

We're a small, fully remote, global company with team members primarily in the U.S. and Australia. We maintain Pacific Time hours and hire within ±4 hours of U.S. time zones to ensure effective collaboration.

This role is onsite in our San Francisco office, but we are open to remote for highly experienced candidates with prior experience at a leading robotics or autonomous vehicle company.

What we're looking for

8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software

3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous systems

Significant professional experience using Go or Rust

Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads

Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms

Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs

Familiarity with Kubernetes

Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)

What we offer

Competitive equity grant in a Series A company

Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents

401k matching up to 4%

4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break

All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year

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