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Principal Engineer, Autonomy Developer Productivity

Mountain View, California, United States of America💼 Full-time💰 $280,000–$280,000🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building and maintaining observability frameworks and tools for distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors to improve AV engineer productivity.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity & Observability

Builds

Observability frameworks, tooling for collecting/acting on signals, and technical designs for distributed systems

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Productivity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Software and systems engineering, code review, technical design, large-scale system design, container orchestration, distributed systems, Go/Python/Rust/C/C++/NodeJS, Unix/Linux, networking fundamentals, mentoring

Preferred skills

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), observability pipelines (Prometheus/Grafana/TSDB), SLIs/SLOs, Open Source contribution

Technologies

Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs, Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, NodeJS

Responsibilities

Contribute code and perform code reviews to improve observability systems; Identify opportunities to improve engineering state via observability; Partner with SE teams to guide tool usage; Build tools for collecting observability signals; Evaluate new tools via PoCs to influence technical roadmap; Drive software engineering best practices; Mentor and grow engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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