Backend Software Engineer Location: Foster City, CA/Hybrid Duration: 6 months with possible extension Description: The Data Team leverages data from our autonomous vehicles and operations to determine autonomy and service readiness. We provide the foundation for strategic decision-making at Client. You will help develop and implement the next generation of our data pipeline to ensure visibility into our business as we scale toward the launch of an autonomous mobility service. You will define the system and build the pipeline to enable Client to develop and scale with a data-first culture. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain a platform used by Client teams to build large-scale data pipelines Drive platform efficiency improvements to reduce latency and improve data freshness Support data-driven engineering decisions through improved observability and key metrics Partner with engineering teams to support long-term scaling of their data pipelines Qualifications 5+ years of software engineering experience Strong fluency with Python Strong understanding of distributed systems Strong written and verbal communication skills Good experience building and maintaining data intensive production systems at scale Good experience with relational databases and non-relational (NoSQL) databases Good experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, ...) Experience with large scale streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) Bonus Qualifications Experience with data warehouse platforms (e.g. Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, ...) Experience building scalable and maintainable data pipelines Experience with AWS ECS and/or Kubernetes Experience with a workflow manager such as Airflow Experience with large scale processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, ...) Call Notes: Will largely revolve around microservice development in Python Focus on increasing efficiency, optimization and resolving edge cases rather than adding new features Daily responsibilities – creating pull requests for Python code or Terra Form deployment code Needs experience with AWS and Terra Form for deployment Additional beneficial skills: knowledge of AWS ECS and Python libraries like SQL Al chemy Bonus if they have knowledge of data warehouse platforms Redshift, Big Query, Dada bricks, Airflow