Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Remote Assist
About Stack:
Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.
About the Role:
This role is for a backend-focused full stack engineer on the Remote Assist team. The RA team accelerates the delivery of our self-driving system, increases the on-time arrival of freight shipments, and improves the behavior of our autonomous trucks on the road. We do so by delivering a tool for human operators to remotely assist the self-driving system in complex and ambiguous situations. The Remote Assistance team is a very broad full-stack team. We deliver on complex user interfaces, reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure, live video over cellular connections, new autonomy capabilities, and integrations with the autonomy system. We’re a dynamic and pragmatic team that has superpower in-house abilities to categorically change the trajectory of our company’s success.
Responsibilities:
- Own the cloud infrastructure for the Remote Assist system, including the specification, design, development, rigorous testing, performance optimization and maintenance. Influence the entire end-to-end Remote Assist system.
- Contribute to the operator tooling application and the onboard RA components, such as the communications stack, video and data streaming technologies, etc.
- Founding member of an uncommonly broad end-to-end team that includes front end, cloud, and robotics engineers working together on a single product. Excited to work across our entire codebase and sees it as positive to contribute to front end, cloud, and even sometimes onboard C++ code on the robot.
- Partner closely with the RA tech leads that own onboard and offboard code.
- Work across functions with other teams including design, fleet monitoring engineering, infrastructure engineering, etc.
- Take part in on-call rotations.
- Quarterly travel to on-sites at our headquarters in Pittsburgh.
Required Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or closely related field
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building reliable and highly available cloud services
- Experience in the Go programming language
- Experience in SQL and NoSQL database technologies such as Postgres, Redis, or similar
- Experience with message queue technologies (kafka)
- Proficiency in containerized solutions such as Docker, Tilt, Kubernetes, or similar
- Strong and proven teamwork and collaboration skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with some form of low-latency real-time streaming architecture
- Experience with live video streaming systems and WebRTC
- Experience with gRPC and Protobufs
- Experience with front-end development in Typescript and React
- Experience with C++ development
- Experience with AV / Robotics products
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