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StaffSenior Staff Software Engineer Full Stack

Zoox


Job Location:

Foster, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 285000 - 350000
Posted: 23 August 2026 (2 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 20 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 - Zooxs 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 youll 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 engineers across the team.

In this role you will:
  • Lead the design and development of Geofencer across the stack: a React/TypeScript single-page application with rich interactive map editing ( Mapbox) and Python backend services (FastAPI SQLAlchemy/GeoAlchemy2 Celery) on PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
  • Own core geospatial data workflows: versioned geofence editing road-network annotation drivable-area computation and connectivity validation and the Plan of Record release process that publishes operational constraints to the fleet.
  • Integrate with the broader Zoox ecosystem: the Zoox Road Network (ZRN) map graph S3 artifact pipelines downstream fleet and mission systems and ML-assisted annotation workflows.
  • Operate production infrastructure: Bazel builds Docker/Kubernetes deployment observability (Grafana Sentry OpenTelemetry) and CI/CD and whip up quick scripts and tools to automate tasks data migrations bulk annotation operations metrics generation.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment with operations mapping and autonomy stakeholders; translate ambiguous operational needs into scalable technical solutions; and mentor engineers on the team.
Qualifications
  • Bachelors degree in an engineering mathematics or related field
  • 10 years of industry experience building and operating production fullstack systems on large code bases
  • Strong proficiency in fullstack development: Python backend services (FastAPI/Flask/Django or similar) React with TypeScript/JavaScript (ideally for data-heavy or visualization-intensive UIs) relational databases async/task-queue architectures and scripting/automation (Python shell)
  • 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
Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience with geospatial systems: PostGIS GDAL/Shapely/Turf map rendering libraries ( Mapbox GL Leaflet) or road-network/graph data models and building map-based web applications or GIS tooling with safety-critical systems

  • Robotics automotive or aerospace software experience

  • Familiarity with ML-assisted data pipelines (e.g. VLM-based annotation or labeling workflows)

$285000 - $350000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance long-term care insurance long-term and short-term disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.


Accommodations
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A Final Note:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Staff IC


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