Backend Software Engineer

We are searching for a Backend Software Engineer to help us develop AI-based autonomous industrial robotic solutions and integrate them with our customers’ complex software management environments. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy the critical infrastructure needed to support a range of industrial automation applications. In this role, you will partner with the Machine Learning, Robot Control Software, and DevOps teams to craft an efficient software platform and data pipeline that supports our core backend systems.

At OSARO we develop solutions to endow industrial robots with the level of autonomy needed to perform an unprecedented variety of complex pick and place tasks leveraging sophisticated robot control and neural network-based perception algorithms. You are passionate about what you build, you feel a strong sense of ownership, and you love dynamic challenges. You care deeply about your team, you’re direct and you believe in doing what you say.

What You'll be Doing
You will contribute to a variety of projects from diagnosing network bottlenecks to helping design, build, and improve our data stores of thousands of hours of video and training data
You will design and implement backend systems to manage our growing fleet of autonomous robots
You will build and support compute clusters for training our machine learning models
You will develop and maintain the backend for internal and customer-facing web services.

Experience and Skills You'll Need
BS or MS in Computer Science and 1-3 years of relevant experience
Strong knowledge of distributed computing and systems design
Experience programming in Python
Working knowledge of shell scripting, Linux system administration and debugging, and backend automation frameworks
Good knowledge of databases (relational and otherwise) and experience with building and managing data processing pipelines at scale
Knowledge of fundamental networking concepts and ability to debug and diagnose network issues
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required (we do sponsor H1B transfer).

Technologies We Use
TensorFlow
Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Helm
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery
Flask, Django, React
Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack
GRPC, Avro
OAuth, LDAP
NFS, Ceph, S3
CI & CD platforms
Prometheus, CollectD, Grafana
OpenVPN, IPSec, Wireguard

Bonus if you have
Experience working with large data sources and preprocessing data
Experience with managing clusters on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes