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Job Location drjobs

Redwood City - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

Were seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our API Platform team. This team plays a critical role in building secure reliable and intuitive APIs and SDKs that power robotics applications across industries from restaurants and hotels to warehouses and factories. By simplifying complex robotics systems we enable both internal teams and external partners to scale and deploy next-gen automation effortlessly.

As a core member of this high-impact team youll take ownership of the full API lifecycle from design and threat modeling to deployment and continuous improvement. Your work will help accelerate how quickly robotics innovations reach the real world.

What Youll Do:

  • Design and build robust REST and gRPC APIs in Go that surface real-time robotic capabilities and telemetry

  • Develop cross-language SDKs (Go Python TypeScript) that make our APIs accessible ergonomic and idiomatic

  • Improve service reliability with metrics tracing alerts and participate in an on-call rotation

  • Work closely with robotics infrastructure and product teams to translate low-level hardware functions into developer-friendly APIs

  • Automate key workflows from CI/CD and contract testing to one-click deployments

  • Contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing through code reviews design docs and mentoring

What Were Looking For:

  • 5 years of back-end software engineering experience with a deep understanding of concurrency networking and system performance

  • Proven experience building and maintaining APIs-REST gRPC- with a strong grasp of versioning idempotency pagination and backwards compatibility

  • A passion for developer experience: writing clean client code documentation and practical tutorials

  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments (Docker Kubernetes Terraform) and observability tools

  • Strong cross-functional communication skills you can balance technical design with user and product needs

  • A bias for action: you thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments and iterate based on data and feedback

  • A collaborative mindset you value feedback team growth and inclusive problem-solving

Bonus if you:

  • Have experience operating production services at scale

  • Regularly consume and evaluate third-party APIs

  • Enjoy writing about your work and sharing it internally or externally

This role is perfect for someone who wants to have real impact in shaping the interface between robotics hardware and modern software systems.


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