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Senior Software Engineer - Product

San Carlos, CA. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will own the full stack including Go backend, TypeScript/React frontend, and Kubernetes deployment for the fleet operations platform. You will extend the robot cloud protocol and improve reliability and observability for systems operating real robots.

What you will do

  • Own features end-to-end across the Go backend, TypeScript/React frontend, and Kubernetes deployment
  • Extend the robot cloud protocol and operator tooling
  • Improve reliability and observability across services
  • Perform instrumentation, structured logging, incident triage, and post-mortems
  • Build internal and customer-facing platforms for fleet management, logistics, and service operations

Required qualifications

  • Strong architecture, concurrency, WebSocket services, and API-first development with OpenAPI/ogen
  • Strong TypeScript in strict mode on Node.js
  • Production React experience using a modern full-stack framework and real-time state management
  • Database experience with schema design, migrations (Goose/Drizzle), connection pooling (pgx), and query performance
  • Kubernetes in production with deployments, services, secrets, rollout strategy
  • AWS fundamentals (ECS, EKS, RDS, S3)

Nice to have

  • AI/LLM application development: OpenAI SDK, LangChain, prompt design, token accounting, and evals
  • WebRTC or SFU experience, or strong willingness to ramp quickly on real-time video infrastructure
  • 3D or robotics visualization or experience with ROS or robot middleware
  • Experience supporting a fleet of physical devices in the field, including operational tooling for provisioning, monitoring, and incident response

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
  • 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
  • Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
  • Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
  • Onsite snacks and catered lunches

About the company

1X builds humanoid robots that work in homes to do chores and handle tasks. They are building a cloud-native platform to connect robots to operators, customers, and systems.