What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer, Data (Backend) position at Viam?
Viam is a software platform that makes it easy to turn great ideas into production-ready smart machines & robots at scale. Viam works with any hardware and has modern architecture, easy developer APIs, cloud connectivity and tools, and enterprise-grade security to give even the leanest teams the power to launch and manage their smart machine businesses.
Viam makes building, deploying, and monitoring smart machines a more flexible, affordable, and user-friendly experience, allowing developers to do more with smart machines while getting them to market faster. By making smart machines more accessible, Viam is attracting talent and investment to the industry so that more people start building automated products and services that improve our quality of life.
Staff Software Engineer, Data (Backend)
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our New York-based Data team. The Data team tackles interesting problems that span a wide range of technical challenges in data storage, database optimization, data querying, API design, UI / UX, and more.
You will have the opportunity to create solutions that make it seamless for a user to get data from a device and use that data to do something really interesting. The current tech stack consists of Golang, MongoDB, GCP, Azure, and gRPC.
In this role, you will :
- Work on performant, reliable systems that allow our users to capture large amounts of data from their smart machines, sync it to our cloud service, and query it.
- Design and implement data processing and querying systems, and developer-friendly APIs.
- Collaborate across other teams and mentor other engineers.
- Improve the experience of the data developer.
- Analyze performance and scale challenges and solve them.
We're looking for someone who :
Benefits :
The starting salary for this role is between $235,000 - $259,000 / year. Your exact offer will vary based on a number of factors including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced, or more senior, than this job description as posted. In these situations, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.
Salary : $235,000 - $259,000
