Senior Data Engineer

Overview Robotics 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 and commercial tools to accelerate it. We’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.

About the role

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 data‑oriented Product Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our user interfaces, backend services and data processing pipelines. 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
• Building systems to provide timely analytics across multimodal data
• Multi‑cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments

Our technical stack includes:

• Node.js (TypeScript)
• PostgreSQL
• Rust
• Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP
• Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years professional experience in writing high‑performance production software
• Significant professional experience building REST APIs in using Typescript, Go and/or Rust
• Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Familiarity with building user‑facing interfaces in React
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, small‑team environment
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

Bonus Points

• Robotics or AV experience
• Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)
• Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)

What We Offer

• $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
• Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
• 401k matching up to 4%
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off‑sites 2x/year

Job Details

Location: San Francisco, CA Employment Type: Full time Department: Product & EngineeringData Curation Compensation: $180K – $240K