Senior Software Engineer, Zoox

• 7+ years of industry experience in software engineering
• Strong background in Python and Spark for large-scale data processing
• A key contributor to the architecture and implementation of event-based or stream processing projects
• Experience with AWS services, especially S3 and ECS
• Experience with Databricks and Apache Airflow

Desirable

• The Analytics Platform, established in late 2024 as part of the Data Infrastructure team, has been redefining the foundation of data analysis and metrics to enable machine learning, data science, engineering, and safety analysis with modern big data technologies
• The team has been developing Zoox’s schedule-based and event-based data processing platforms, using technology such as AWS, Databricks, Spark, Parquet, and DuckDB, for multiple teams to transform several PBs of structured data into more efficient and queryable data formats
• By joining this team, you’ll collaborate with a world-class group of software engineers to tackle complex challenges at the scale of hundreds of petabytes of data, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in autonomous transportation
• Develop features for Zoox’s event-based processing framework to process a large volume of data with complex dependencies
• Develop features for the schedule-based processing framework, which is built on top of Airflow, Spark, AWS EMR, and DuckDB
• Build up system observability for performance and reliability monitoring and success measurement
• Analyze and optimize the latency and resource efficiency of the infrastructure you will develop
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including software engineers, data engineers, and TPMs — to gather requirements, design robust architectures, and implement effective solutions

• Paid parental leave
• Affinity groups and sports clubs
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance
• Our crew’s health and happiness is our first priority. We offer comprehensive health and mental health support, a wellbeing program, and unlimited and flexible paid time away
• We invest in our crew—and their families—for the long term. That includes generous family planning support, caregiver support, and strong cash compensation with great equity upside
• We look after our crew when they’re in the office too. Our famous food program is a great example, featuring a daily changing menu of local and sustainable dishes
• There’s a busy calendar of social events at Zoox, with more sports teams than you can count. And, of course, playing with robots is an important part of the job description

Total funding: $1.2bn

Zoox, a self-driving vehicle company, was founded to make personal transportation safer and more enjoyable for all. It has aimed to achieve this goal by creating a new mode of driverless transportation, thus eradicating the safety and logistical issues that come with human drivers.