Senior Software Engineer (Routing)

• The Routing Team crafts vital services that ensure Nuro Driver™ reaches destinations safely and efficiently
• We continuously refine our routing engine to calculate more efficient routes, deliver highly accurate ETAs, and manage scalable traffic for every journey, adapting as our business / geolocation expands and mapping infrastructure evolves
• You will work on building and scaling both the backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team
• This includes everything from designing microservices, optimizing our routing algorithms, understanding road network graphs, building monitoring and analytics infrastructure, optimizing our deployment pipeline, and more
• You will work with product, strategy, and operations teams to design and build new, magical user experiences, and define our product strategy and roadmap

Benefits

• Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits
• Company stock options
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance

• You have at least 3-5 years of building and scaling realtime server-side applications
• You know how to choose the right storage technology for the job. You have experience with a wide-range of databases, including relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc)
• You have experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, or are willing to learn
• You have extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc)
• You have worked on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance
• You are impact-driven. You care deeply that your work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people
• Technical excellence
• You are proficient in C++ programming
• You have a passion for making lives easier for developers. You love working on tooling that will help engineers more easily troubleshoot, debug, and profile their applications
• You care about users. You like to work closely with product and design to build the best product for our consumers
• You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and you’re a quick learner
• You are a great communicator, and you regularly chat with PMs, UXRs, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders on product requirements and designs
• You have the knack for making the right tradeoffs. You know when it makes sense to take the quick-and-dirty vs the scalable approach. You can move fluently between the two
• You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc)
• Experience with map data and graph data structures
• Experience with robotics
• Experience with routing algorithms
• Experience with ETA modeling