Senior Software Engineer, Rust
Build the data infrastructure for robots operating in the real world.
Robotics is moving from research labs into production across factories, warehouses, vehicles, and field deployments. When robots fail, behave unexpectedly, or need to be improved, engineers rely on data to understand what actually happened.
At Foxglove, we build the observability, visualization, and data infrastructure that makes that possible. Our tools are used by robotics and autonomous systems teams to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze massive volumes of multimodal sensor data from live systems and from production fleets.
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 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.
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
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
What we're looking for
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
What we offer
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
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.