Intuitive

Staff Software Engineer

Intuitive
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3 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$190k - $322k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable distributed systems and event-driven streaming pipelines for robot, manufacturing, and clinical data.
  • Provide self-service APIs and applications for users to access and interact with data.
  • Evolve data models in collaboration with core engineering teams.
  • Apply software development practices including automated testing, infrastructure as code, and microservice architectures.
  • Participate in planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions.
  • Lead data-domain technical direction, mentor teammates, and improve how data is produced, shared, and consumed.

Requirements

  • Fluency in at least two of Python, Go, Scala, Java, and C++.
  • Experience building data pipelines and distributed systems using technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, and Airflow.
  • Deep knowledge of event-driven pipelines, message queues, container orchestration, stream processing, relational databases, data warehouses, analytics engineering, workflow orchestration, and search engines.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, unit testing, integration testing, and deployment patterns.
  • Experience with AWS and/or GCP, SQL, and relational databases.
  • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or a solid quantitative background with 8–10+ years of technically demanding experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include platform-team experience, GitLab CI/CD or other CI tooling, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, infrastructure-as-code practices, CNCF projects, and a Ph.D. in a related field.

Benefits

  • Day-shift employee position with a set schedule and weekly onsite work; the onsite percentage is defined by the leader.
  • Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
  • Certain roles may require proof of vaccination against specified diseases, including COVID-19.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSC++dbtElasticsearchGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Intuitive

About Intuitive

10,000+ employees

Intuitive designs and manufactures robotic-assisted systems for minimally invasive procedures used by hospitals and surgeons, including the da Vinci surgical system and the Ion endoluminal platform for lung biopsy. Its business model combines capital equipment sales with recurring revenue from instruments, accessories, software, and service/training contracts. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Intuitive is publicly traded on NASDAQ (ISRG) and serves healthcare providers worldwide.

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