Senior Software Engineer - Transport Infrastructure
CloudKitchens12 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build developer experience tooling, APIs, and workflows for deploying, testing, and iterating on autonomous systems across 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 for communications 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.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience designing, 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 cloud infrastructure, containerization, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Practical 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 skills and an infrastructure-generalist mindset.
- Hands-on hardware experience is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
- 401(k), equity eligibility, unlimited flexible time off, sick time, and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave and a pre-tax commuter benefit plan.
- Team lunch in the SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday.
- Onsite work in the San Francisco office five days per week.
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.