Senior Software Engineer - Transport Infrastructure
CloudKitchens3 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build developer experience tooling, APIs, and workflows for deploying, testing, and iterating on autonomous vehicle hardware and simulation environments.
- Architect and operate high-throughput GPU clusters for deep learning training, fleet simulation, and large-scale data ingestion.
- Design resilient, low-latency networking between autonomous vehicles in the field and distributed cloud data centers.
- Develop telemetry, logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure to monitor vehicle fleet and cloud service health, performance, and safety.
- Build abstractions and proxy interfaces connecting the Transport domain with centralized infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating high-concurrency backend distributed systems in production.
- Experience using languages such as Go, C++, Rust, or Python.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Understanding of TCP/IP, gRPC, WebSockets, MQTT, load balancing, and edge-to-cloud or data center communications.
- Experience with compute orchestration, high-throughput storage pipelines, or GPU workloads for AI/ML training and simulation.
- Broad system design and infrastructure generalist skills across networking, developer tooling, and compute clusters.
- Hands-on hardware experience is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including HSA options.
- Company-paid short- and long-term life and disability insurance.
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and supplemental life insurance options.
- Pet insurance discount, 401(k), HSA, and flexible spending accounts.
- Discretionary vacation, 8 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid bereavement leave, and paid parental leave.
- Based in San Francisco and onsite five days per week; full-time exempt USA role.
About CloudKitchens
CloudKitchens builds delivery-first commercial kitchen facilities and restaurant software for food and beverage operators. It leases turnkey kitchen space and provides tools for order management, delivery logistics, and multi-brand operations, enabling restaurants and entrepreneurs to expand with lower upfront costs. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, serving markets across the U.S. with a mix of owned sites and enterprise solutions.