Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
Agility Robotics25 days ago
Base Salary
$191k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable pipelines for telemetry, logs, sensor data, and cloud-software ingestion and processing.
- Develop and maintain robot-side data ingestion agents for high-volume collection in low-connectivity environments.
- Develop data formats and protocols optimized for transmitting, storing, and querying recordings, sensor data, and telemetry.
- Build and maintain observability systems using Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, and related tools for real-time fleet monitoring and analytics.
- Prepare high-volume, high-velocity data for analysis using Spark, Kafka, or equivalent technologies.
- Build and optimize internal tools for business intelligence, long-horizon fleet analytics, and forecasting using AWS S3, Athena, SageMaker, and related services.
- Improve data collection and processing from robot sensors and edge devices through IoT integration.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud-based data platforms.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and proficiency with big-data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Beam, or Flink.
- Experience with Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg, Avro, Protobuf, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, metrics, tracing, and logging systems.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python and a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Robotics, autonomous vehicle, sensor-heavy workload, IoT, edge computing, or embedded-device experience is preferred.
- Data catalog experience with DataHub, Amundsen, or Databricks Unity Catalog and experience with Databricks or Kubernetes are preferred.
- Experience with Bazel, Blaze, C++, Rust, MCAP, ROS, Rerun, or related robot-data and build systems is preferred.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Fully remote, with hybrid work available for candidates within commuting distance of the Salem, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; or Fremont, California offices.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
- Company stock options and company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Benefits are available starting on the first day of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program, paid parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement, and eligible-role relocation assistance.
- Flexible or unlimited PTO for exempt employees, or 10 vacation days and paid sick leave for non-exempt employees; both receive 12 company holidays including a winter shutdown.
- Catered lunches four times per week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh offices.
- Eligible roles may receive an annual discretionary bonus.
- U.S.-based role requiring current authorization to work in the United States.
Tech Stack
Apache BeamApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureBazelC++DatabricksGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonRustScala
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics builds and deploys Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot for logistics and manufacturing tasks such as tote handling and material flow in warehouses and distribution centers. The privately held company sells robots, software, and support services to industrial operators integrating automation alongside human workers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Salem, Oregon, it has commercially deployed systems in real-world facilities.