Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Management

The role

Engineers on the Fleet Management team build the control plane for machines running on Viam. You will design backend services, develop full-stack features, and evolve architecture to manage fleets of machines at scale.

What you will do

• Designing and building backend services that manage machine configuration and fleet state
• Developing full-stack features across APIs, databases, and web applications
• Building systems that deploy configuration and software updates across fleets of machines
• Evolving authentication and permissions systems
• Building infrastructure for storing and retrieving logs uploaded from deployed machines
• Improving systems that track machine usage and power the billing platform
• Shaping architecture decisions to help the fleet platform scale
• Owning systems end-to-end from architecture and implementation through production operation
• Raising the engineering bar through architecture discussions, mentorship, and guidance

Required qualifications

• Experienced engineer who enjoys owning systems end-to-end and shipping production software

Nice to have

• 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
• Experience with robotics or IoT

Benefits

• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans
• Commuter benefits
• 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
• Free lunch every day that you are 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

About the company

Viam is a ~100-person robotics engineering platform headquartered in New York City. It lets users configure, control, and manage robots intuitively and quickly.