Foxglove
Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Fleet
Foxglove, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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 developing on-device software for developers to provide observability and connectivity. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our SDK, user interfaces, on-device software, connectivity and data ingestion systems.
Location We're a small, hybrid remote company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.
This role is onsite in our San Francisco office, but we are open to remote for highly experienced candidates with prior experience at a leading robotics or autonomous vehicle company.
Key Responsibilities
Integrating with a variety of robotics frameworks and multiple-language SDKs
Building reliable, low-resource utilization software to run on a myriad of devices
Providing connectivity, observability and telemetry on devices running in constrained environments or in the field
Building distributed systems to collect and transform observability data
Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
Our technical stack includes:
Rust
Node.js (TypeScript)
PostgreSQL
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 on-device software in C++ or Rust
Familiarity with ROS, or other robotics stacks
Experience with observability and monitoring tooling
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
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.
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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 developing on-device software for developers to provide observability and connectivity. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our SDK, user interfaces, on-device software, connectivity and data ingestion systems.
Location We're a small, hybrid remote company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.
This role is onsite in our San Francisco office, but we are open to remote for highly experienced candidates with prior experience at a leading robotics or autonomous vehicle company.
Key Responsibilities
Integrating with a variety of robotics frameworks and multiple-language SDKs
Building reliable, low-resource utilization software to run on a myriad of devices
Providing connectivity, observability and telemetry on devices running in constrained environments or in the field
Building distributed systems to collect and transform observability data
Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)
Our technical stack includes:
Rust
Node.js (TypeScript)
PostgreSQL
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 on-device software in C++ or Rust
Familiarity with ROS, or other robotics stacks
Experience with observability and monitoring tooling
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
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.
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