Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Equipment Edge)
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies4 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers while driving architectural decisions and quality outcomes.
- Design and architect scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable backend systems for equipment integration.
- Mentor and coach engineers and promote collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Solve complex technical challenges and optimize manufacturing processes.
- Champion code quality, documentation, testing, and code review practices.
- Identify and resolve backend performance bottlenecks.
- Communicate technical concepts and decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Own projects and initiatives through successful completion.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience focused on backend development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Familiarity with CIP, Modbus, MQTT, and OPC UA, plus experience integrating factory equipment such as programmable logic controllers and robot controllers.
- Experience designing and developing firmware or software for resource-constrained embedded systems, including hardware interfaces, real-time operating systems, and hardware-level debugging.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and gRPC, including API documentation and versioning.
- Extensive Golang experience, including concurrency, networking, and data structures.
- Strong data-processing knowledge and experience with message queues and stream processing such as NATS, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
- Knowledge of security best practices for backend systems and industrial environments.
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools.
- Experience with edge computing platforms and technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual company performance bonus eligibility, and equity in the form of RSUs for eligible full-time positions.
- Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs; offerings vary by country.
- Hybrid work arrangement from Palo Alto, Irvine, CA, or Normal, IL.
Tech Stack
About Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a 2024 joint venture building software and electrical architectures for software-defined electric vehicles. It develops in-vehicle operating systems, zonal controllers, connectivity, and cloud solutions used by Rivian and Volkswagen Group brands. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and focuses on creating a shared platform that can be integrated and licensed across multiple vehicle programs.