Platform Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Platform & Infrastructure role at Zoox. Foster City · full-time · $153,000–$234,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Track uptime for services used to test and validate on-vehicle software on hardware platforms
- Take services from design through deployment, operations, support, automation and ongoing improvement
- Work with other teams to keep robot testing platforms reliable, accurate and usable
- Handle high-volume data pipelines and compute-heavy workloads using CPUs and GPUs
- Develop and maintain tests that exercise the testing framework and help other teams adopt it
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, math or a related discipline
- At least five years supporting production services, including on-call rotations and SRE work
- Proficiency in Python or Golang, plus experience building and running infrastructure services
- Experience with system automation, resilient infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and backend services or APIs
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level platform engineer with production reliability experience and a hands-on focus on engineering services and robot testing platforms. The position is hybrid in Foster City.
From the employer
The SW HIL (hardware in the loop) team ensures that the testing environment for the system and subsystem improves in uptime, reliability, and feature set. To aid the adoption of our testing framework for use by other teams, the SW HIL team collaborates in test development and maintains key tests that exercise the functionality of the testing framework.
We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, self-starting Platform Engineer to join our Systems Reliability and Stability team. This position will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of various engineering services. You will oversee and collaborate with other teams to ensure the high uptime of our robot testing platforms while measuring and improving their stability, accuracy, and usability.
In this role you will:
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Responsible for measuring and maintaining the uptime of various services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, such as testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.
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Involved with all phases of rolling out various services; from design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement
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Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines while performing compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs
Qualifications:
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Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field
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5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities
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Proficient in Python or Golang
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Experience building and managing infrastructure services
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Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines
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Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, open-telemetry, grafana dashboards
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Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
Bonus Qualifications
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Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting kernel issues, device driver development
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Experience with continuous deployment tools, release management responsibilities
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Experience with CI toolchains such as Buildkite, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
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Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt