Software Engineer | Data Platform
Gecko Robotics5 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the rearchitecture of the Rolodex central data platform and scale its context graph.
- Improve performance across time-series and vector storage technologies.
- Deliver ontologies, predictable APIs, SDKs, local development tooling, and support for AI agent workflows.
- Evolve the centralized permissioning system into an intuitive developer experience.
- Design and optimize query abstractions, indexing, SQL, GraphQL, and workload routing.
- Establish shared platform patterns for schemas, data modeling, chunked uploads, and pipelines.
- Write Terraform and build self-service cloud infrastructure tooling on Gecko’s cloud footprint.
- Automate engineering workflows and reduce operational toil while improving resilience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience in a production environment.
- Expertise in clean, maintainable backend infrastructure, database, or developer-tooling code.
- Experience designing secure, user-friendly APIs for intuitive data interaction.
- Exceptional communication skills and a strong focus on Developer Experience.
- Ability to own long-lived technical projects, coordinate across teams, and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience building, maintaining, or scaling central datastores, knowledge graphs, or shared data platforms.
- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud deployments in GCP or AWS.
- Familiarity with complex authorization and permissioning systems.
- Strong judgment around data modeling, storage formats, access patterns, and developer ergonomics.
- Understanding of data pipelines and data processing infrastructure.
- Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, self-motivation, and willingness to learn new technologies.
Benefits
- Company equity and 401(k) matching
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Mental health support
- Ongoing professional development
- Family planning assistance
- Flexible paid time off
- Office-first work culture, with some work-from-home flexibility
Tech Stack
About Gecko Robotics
Gecko Robotics builds wall-climbing inspection robots, high-density sensors, and an AI data platform (Cantilever) used to assess and predict the condition of critical infrastructure. It sells hardware-enabled services and software to operators in energy, industrial, and defense sectors, supporting use cases such as predictive maintenance on U.S. Navy ships. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, the company is privately held.