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 extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc)
• 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 at least 2+ years of building and scaling realtime server-side applications
• You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc)
• You are proficient in C++ programming
• Experience in training and inferencing ML models
• You have experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, or are willing to learn
• You have worked on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance
• 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 care about users. You like to work closely with product and design to build the best product for our consumers
• 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 are impact-driven. You care deeply that your work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people
• You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and you’re a quick learner
• Experience with routing algorithms
• Experience with robotics
• Experience with map data and graph data structures
• Experience with ETA modeling