Your role will primarily involve working on Ouster’s Blue City solution with the mission of making roads safer, reducing commute times, and cutting emissions. We develop software that provides cities with the information needed to better understand and improve their transportation network. Our small, tightknit, team consists of engineers with backgrounds in Transportation and Software Engineering, dedicated to this mission.
We are seeking a dynamic and passionate software engineer who will be a key player in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend infrastructure, API servers, and services.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop robust Python code to support various product functionalities.
- Work with the team and individually to architect and implement our cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Build and maintain REST APIs.
- Collaborate on developing algorithms designed to generate traffic analytics.
- Containerize applications using Docker to ensure seamless deployment and scalability.
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in coding for production software applications.
- 5+ years of experience in distributed system design with focus on scalability.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing backend applications using Python is required.
- Experience designing and managing databases, with an emphasis on Postgres. (Bonus for experience with time-series data)
- Excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication skills.
- Experience using a variety of communication protocols (TCP, GRPC, MQTT, etc.)
- Strong familiarity with developing in Linux environments.
- Experience with AWS
- A solid understanding of how to design, develop, test, and monitor production backend systems
- Strong understanding of Cloud Security best practices and standards
- Experience with Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform
Bonus points:
- Experience in the ITS industry or Transportation Engineering
- Past experience working with embedded systems.
