Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Management

About the role

The Engineering Challenge at Viam involves building software for machines in real-world environments, dealing with unreliable networks, and integrating with hardware, sensors, and real-time data. The Fleet Management team builds the control plane for Viam's machines, including cloud systems and web applications for configuring devices, deploying software, and managing fleets at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services that manage machine configuration and fleet state
• Develop full-stack features across APIs, databases, and web applications used to operate machines
• Build systems that deploy configuration and software updates across fleets of machines
• Evolve authentication and permissions systems used across the Viam platform
• Build infrastructure for storing and retrieving logs uploaded from deployed machines
• Improve systems that track machine usage and power Viam's billing platform
• Shape architecture decisions that help the fleet platform scale as deployments grow

Requirements

• Experience building production systems in distributed or cloud environments
• Experience designing APIs and backend services that operate reliably at scale
• Experience debugging complex distributed systems or production services
• Experience working across teams to improve shared platform capabilities, developer tooling, or user-facing systems
• Experience making sound technical tradeoffs as systems and architecture evolve

Qualifications

• Experience with robotics or IoT is not required

Skills

• Proficiency in Golang backend services
• Experience with modern web applications (Svelte / Typescript)
• Knowledge of MongoDB
• Experience with gRPC APIs

Benefits

• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans
• 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
• Free lunch every day that you’re in the office
• One Medical Membership
• Citi Bike memberships
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
• Yearly Learning and Development Budget

Pay

$190,000 - $235,000/year

Schedule

Hybrid — 3+ days per week in office