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Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Zoox · Foster City, CA · Hybrid

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About Zoox

Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing. Backed by Lux.

About the role

In this role, you will be a technical lead for a tool called Geofencer - Zoox's geospatial platform for defining where and how our autonomous vehicles operate. Geofencer is the system of record for geofences, road-network annotations, pickup/dropoff zones, and released Plans of Record that flow directly to the fleet — making it one of the highest-leverage tools at the company: a change made in this application changes where robotaxis drive in the real world. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field
  • 10+ years of industry experience building and operating production fullstack systems on large code bases
  • Experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), containerized deployment, build systems, version control, testing methodologies, and CI/CD
  • Demonstrated technical leadership: driving multi-quarter projects, setting architectural direction, and mentoring engineers
More about this role

The Software Systems Infrastructure team is responsible for aiding the Software Systems organization with all its internal tooling needs, development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles. We are a fullstack, high-paced software engineering team.

In this role, you will be a technical lead for a tool called Geofencer - Zoox's geospatial platform for defining where and how our autonomous vehicles operate. Geofencer is the system of record for geofences, road-network annotations, pickup/dropoff zones, and released Plans of Record that flow directly to the fleet — making it one of the highest-leverage tools at the company: a change made in this application changes where robotaxis drive in the real world. You will own architecture and delivery across the full stack, from an interactive map-editing frontend to geospatial backend services and release pipelines, working closely with mapping, autonomy, operations, and safety teams. As a team lead, you'll take technical ownership for the whole system including delivery of features, set technical direction, drive quality and correctness in a safety-critical domain, and mentor...

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