Senior Software Engineer, Rust

12 hours ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Foxglove Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source and commercial tools to accelerate it.

We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.

About the role

Foxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites.

We're seeking a highly skilled product and Rust focused Software Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You'll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces.

Challenges:

  • Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offload

  • Providing low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data

  • Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)

  • Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments

  • Building systems to manage petabytes of multi-modal data reliably and efficiently

Our technical stack includes:

  • Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Rust and Typescript

  • PostgreSQL

  • Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP

  • Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

  • Endpoint software on customer robots written in Rust

Location

We're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.

For this position, we're looking for someone within 3 hours of Australian Eastern Time with the ability to overlap 3+ hours with Pacific Time Zone (US).

What we're looking for
  • 6+ years experience writing production software

  • 2+ years experience using Rust professionally

  • Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code

  • Experience with binary data serialization or network communication protocols

  • Experience shipping software in network-constrained environments

  • Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users

  • Comfortable participating in on-call rotations

  • Excellent written & verbal communication skills

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Bonus points
  • Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles

  • Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and/or Kubernetes

What we offer
  • Work remotely

  • $400 AUD monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

  • Competitive equity grant in a Series A company

  • 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break

  • All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year



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