Senior Database Engineer, Zoox
$180-230k
+RSUs
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Open for applications
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+RSUs
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related fields with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
- Proficiency in AWS Services: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
- Expertise in PostgreSQL and MySQL: Database architecture, administration, performance tuning, replication
- Knowledge of Major Database Technologies: Oracle, Postgres,Mysql,Redshift
- Performance Optimization and Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, hardware optimization
- Shell Scripting: Bash scripting for system administration, deployments, workflows
- Database Design and Modeling: Normalization, denormalization, efficient schema design
- Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting Skills: Analytical, diagnosing complex issues, optimizing system performance
Desirable
- Strong Programming Skills in Python: Data manipulation, analysis, automation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform,Salt
- DevOps Practices: CI/CD, Agile/Scrum, Git for version control
- Data Integration and ETL: Integrating data from multiple sources, ETL processes, data warehousing
What the job involves
- Seeking an experienced individual to take a lead role in managing a portfolio of over 500+ Zoox databases
- Working closely with developers and business partners, you will drive the delivery of optimized and scalable database solutions
- Your responsibilities will include identifying areas for improvement in our existing database implementation and proactively collaborating with software partners to address them
- Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in cross-functional collaboration with teams including data science, software development, security, and compliance, influencing key database-related decisions and promoting best practices
- Lead database architecture and design efforts to meet business requirements
- Develop and maintain database code with a focus on performance and scalability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through optimization and tuning
- Administer and secure database servers, ensuring data integrity and availability
- Participate in database on-call support
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address database needs
- Document database designs, configurations, and processes thoroughly
- Stay current with emerging database technologies and best practices
- Investigate and resolve database-related incidents and outages promptly
- Implement proactive monitoring and alerting to detect and mitigate issues
- Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve database performance and reliability
Our take
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.
It revealed its custom vehicle design in December 2020, showcasing something different from just a car without a driver. Uniquely, all four wheels are independent of one another, and the vehicles have no front or back, making them more agile than a standard car. Zoox claims that it is different from other industry players because it has created an entire driverless ecosystem, including the vehicle itself, allowing it to have more control.
The company is fast becoming a major player in an industry that is predicted to be worth $2 trillion by 2030. Electric motors are highly desirable, particularly in an urban environment, as governments look for ways to reduce emissions and improve air quality. Zoox is aiming to play a vital role in this evolution towards more sustainable urban mobility. Amazon acquired the company in 2020 and, despite a general downturn in the sector through 2022, is building a Zoox factory and budgeting $1 billion per year for future development and production.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2019
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2018
$500m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Vintage Park, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Aicha Evans
(CEO, not founder)Having studied at the George Washington University, Aicha started her career with 2 years in Engineering at Skyworks before joining Intel, where she spent over 11 years. She left her role as Corporate Strategy Officer in February 2019 to join Zoox as CEO.
Jesse Levinson
(CTO)Prior to co-founding Zoox, completed a Computer Science PhD at Stanford University. Also created Pro HDR, a million+ selling mobile photography app.
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