Staff Data Platform Engineer, Dexterity

Salary not provided
Python
Java
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Go
C++
C
Hadoop
Rust
Spark
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

Dexterity

Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain

Open for applications

Dexterity

Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseLogisticsManufacturingRoboticsSupply ChainSaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Python
Java
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Go
C++
C
Hadoop
Rust
Spark
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseLogisticsManufacturingRoboticsSupply ChainSaaS

Company mission

Dexterity's mission is to help people thrive and grow by freeing them to do work that humans do best, by transforming the world to make work more purposeful.

Role

Who you are

  • BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • 10+ years of experience in software design, data engineering, data processing at scale and basic algorithm related solutions
  • 7+ years of programming experience in Java, Python, C/C++, Rust, Go, or other relevant coding languages
  • Hands-on experience developing/managing distributed systems or other large-scale systems

Desirable

  • Experience with data infrastructure technologies like Kakfa, Elastic search, HDFS, distributed tracing etc
  • Experience with observability/telemetry tech stack like Prometheus/Victoria metrics/ Grafana , Alert manager etc
  • Experience with building solutions on a public cloud platform like GCP, Azure etc
  • Experience with industry, open-source projects and/or academic research in data management, data modeling, relational databases, and/or large-data, parallel and distributed systems
  • Experience with deploying solutions on a on-premise systems and on public cloud platform
  • Experience in building data infrastructure for AI/ ML ecosystems

What the job involves

  • The Data group at Dexterity is designing one of the most distributed data infrastructures on the planet
  • Shape and build infrastructure that ingests sub-millisecond sensor data as well application logs generated on-premise and makes it available to cloud data consumers with real-time performance
  • Design, implement, and optimize the performance of distributed data platforms (distributed systems) spanning from the edge to the cloud with security, reliability and network constraints in mind
  • Architect and design the data pipelines for AI/ ML heavy workloads in mind in order to extract crucial insights from the data
  • Work with product teams across the company to identify the needs of data and build out features
  • Have a good knowledge of data modeling and distributed systems like Spark, Hadoop, kafka, Elasticsearch etc
  • Help build a fast-growing team by mentoring other engineers and contribute to Dexterity’s strong customer focused culture
  • Tech-lead several key initiatives and define the future Dexterity big data pipelines and platform
  • Reports to: Head of Platform

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Insights

Top investors

1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits for you and your family
  • Retirement plan (subject to country of employment)
  • Wellbeing and fitness offerings
  • Insurance programs
  • Discounts and perks
  • Meals and snacks at our sites

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2025

$95m

LATE VC

Oct 2021

$140m

SERIES B

Total funding: $291.2m

Our take

Dexterity emerged from stealth at an opportune, albeit tough, time in 2020, just as an accelerating labour crunch drove major demand for automated solutions in factories and warehouses. The company managed a major fundraise and immediately moved on to bigger and better things: expanding into the Japanese market, partnering with supply chain automation leader Dematic and achieving unicorn status with a greater than $1 billion valuation.

Unlike other companies which are fixated on developing increasingly sophisticated, more human-like robots, Dexterity’s takes a comparatively simple hardware approach. Its machines take care of highly repetitive tasks, while its SaaS platform shares everything it learns with each robot, amplifying intelligence across the fleet. Rather than seeking to replace human workforces it aims to augment them, freeing skilled workers for more complex tasks.

Considering that the worldwide labour shortage is heavily impacting the industrial sector, Dexterity is in a promising position to continue its upward trajectory over the next few years.. Indeed its recent partnerships with Sumitomo to supply 1,500 Dexterity robots in their warehouses and with FedEx for autonomous trailer loading are encouraging signs of things to come for the company.

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