Senior Backend Software Engineer, Viam

• Is a strong programmer, familiar with or open to learning Go
• Has systems experience with Linux (especially ARM/aarch64), and comfort working across Windows and macOS
• Has experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS) and building CI/CD & build pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Is comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Has a systems-thinking mindset and strong debugging skills across networking, filesystems, permissions, and real-world edge environments
• Can work independently and drive cross-team initiatives in a high-context environment
• Writes clearly and documents tools and workflows for others to build on

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team
• This team owns our developer tooling, supports the reliability and performance of our systems across multiple platforms, and plays a key role in unblocking our engineers and our customers to ship quickly and confidently
• An exciting aspect of this role is that the tooling you'll develop is widely used; customers leveraging the Viam platform will rely on these tools to build and deploy their own pluggable hardware drivers, software services, and ML models through the Viam Registry, enabling them to connect new machines and capabilities to the platform
• If you thrive on solving challenging technical problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and driving meaningful improvements, we want to hear from you!
• Own and improve our developer platform, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer environments
• Partner with engineering teams to prototype and integrate AI/ML capabilities, like LLM-driven code generation, code assistant or smart CI checks, into our developer tooling to eliminate repetitive work and surface real-time insights that boost productivity
• Design better developer testing infrastructure to ensure seamless hardware and cross-platform support and resilience in edge-specific scenarios like flaky connectivity
• Manage the full lifecycle of our cloud infrastructure, including multi-region availability planning, cost optimization, and failover strategy, while codifying resources in Terraform and empowering engineers with operational autonomy
• Partner with other teams to support complex customer projects and deliver robust cross-platform solutions
• Help shape our incident response strategy and enhance observability practices across the organization
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams, Solutions Engineering, and company leadership