Staff Software Engineer, Data Curation

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 data-oriented Product Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our user interfaces, backend services and data processing pipelines.

Location

Foxglove is a remote-friendly company, with employees spread across many locations. We maintain Pacific Time hours and hire within ±4 hours of U.S. time zones to ensure effective collaboration.

We are open to remote for highly experienced candidates with prior experience at a leading robotics or autonomous vehicle company or onsite in our San Francisco office.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• Building systems to provide timely analytics across multimodal data

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

• Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments

Our technical stack includes:

• Node.js (TypeScript)

• PostgreSQL

• Rust

• Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP

• Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

What we're looking for

• 8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software

• Significant professional experience building REST APIs using Typescript, Rust or similar backend languages (Go, Python).

• Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems

• Familiarity with building user-facing interfaces in React

• 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

  • Robotics or AV experience

  • Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)

  • Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)

What We Offer

• $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)

• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents

• 401(k) matching up to 4%

• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break

• All expenses paid company off-sites 2× per year

Why Join Us

• Impact: Own growth at a fast-growing, high-leverage moment for the company.

• Mission: Accelerate the development of the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.

• Team: Work with world-class engineers, designers, and researchers passionate about open-source and developer tools.

• Ownership: Drive initiatives end-to-end, with high autonomy and visibility.