Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:
Foxglove 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.
We’re seeking a highly skilled product and Rust focused Senior Software 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. 

Challenges:

• Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offload
• Providing low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data 
• Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure) 
• Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments
• Building systems to manage petabytes of multi-modal data reliably and efficiently

Our technical stack includes:

• Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Rust, Go and Typescript
• PostgreSQL
• Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP
• Customer deployments in Azure and AWS
• Endpoint software on customer robots written in Rust

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience writing production software
• 1+ year experience using Rust professionally 
• Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code
• Experience with binary data serialization or network communication protocols
• Experience shipping software in network-constrained environments
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Bonus Points:

• Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles
• Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and/or Kubernetes

What we offer:

• Work remotely
• $400 AUD monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace
• Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year