Sub-Saharan AfricaRobotics 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 & commercial tools to accelerate it.Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaWe'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.Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaAbout the roleSub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaFoxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites.Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaWe're seeking a highly skilled product-oriented Data Infrastructure Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You'll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces.Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaChallenges:Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan AfricaIngesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offloadSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaProviding low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data
• Sub-Saharan AfricaMulti-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Sub-Saharan AfricaOffloading data from remote devices in network constrained environmentsSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaBuilding systems to manage petabytes of multi-modal data reliably and efficientlySub-Saharan Africa
  
  

Sub-Saharan AfricaOur technical stack includes:Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan AfricaIngestion, streaming, and other compute services in GoSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaNode.js (TypeScript)Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaPostgreSQLSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaManaged Kubernetes environments in GCPSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaCustomer deployments in Azure and AWSSub-Saharan Africa
  
  

Sub-Saharan AfricaLocationSub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaWe're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaFor this position, we're looking for someone within 3 hours of Australian Eastern TimeSub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan AfricaWhat we're looking forSub-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan Africa5+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production softwareSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaSignificant professional experience using Go or Rust
• Sub-Saharan AfricaStrong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloadsSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaExperience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanismsSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaHistory of building scalable SQL-backed REST APIsSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaPassion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary usersSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaExcellent written & verbal communication skillsSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaAbility to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environmentSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaConsiders the customer impact when making technical decisionsSub-Saharan Africa
  
  

Sub-Saharan AfricaBonus pointsSub-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan AfricaRobotics or AV experienceSub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaExperience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan AfricaInfrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  

Sub-Saharan AfricaWhat we offerSub-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan AfricaWork remotely
• Sub-Saharan AfricaOpportunity to work in a fast-paced early stage company
• Sub-Saharan AfricaPotential for full time after 6+ monthsSub-Saharan Africa

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