Senior Software Engineer, Rust at Foxglove

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.

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.

Foxglove is a remote-friendly company, with employees spread across many locations. 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 or Pacific Time Zone (US) with the ability to overlap 3+ hours with Pacific Time Zone (US).

• 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

• 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

• Work remotely

• $400 AUD monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company

• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break

• All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2 per year

• 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.