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Staff Backend Engineer, Robotics
Foxglove
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 175k-225k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 23, 2025
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Product & Engineering
Compensation
- $175K – $225K
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
We are looking for a highly experienced, product-minded Full Stack Engineer to join our small, skilled, and fast-moving team.
We use full stack TypeScript, with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend. Shipping features will require you to contribute across the stack.
Take ownership of our REST API, client libraries, and ensure a seamless API-first developer experience
End-to-end feature ownership, interacting with customers and our community to understand their needs
Expand your knowledge of the robotics and self-driving industries
Work alongside an experienced team on a cutting edge product
Location
We’re a small, fully remote, global company with team members primarily in the U.S. and Australia. We maintain Pacific Time hours and hire within ±4 hours of U.S. time zones to ensure effective collaboration.
For this position, we're looking for someone located in San Francisco.
What we're looking for
8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software
3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous system
Significant professional experience using Go or Rust
Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads
Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms
Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs
Familiarity with Kubernetes
Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
Excellent written & verbal communication skills
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
Bonus points
Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)
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Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)
What we offer
Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents
401k matching up to 4%
4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
Compensation Range: $175K - $225K