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Staff Software Engineer, Rust
Foxglove
Software Engineering
Oceania · Remote
AUD 180k-220k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 15, 2025
Location
Remote - Oceania
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation
- A$180K – A$220K
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
Compensation Range: A$180K - A$220K