Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Deployment
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Zoox. Foster City · full-time · $219,000–$271,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Keep the deployment platform reliable and handle its operational needs
- Build the standard route for continuous delivery, including safeguards that make it safe to trust
- Move application teams onto the platform with SRE, turning repeated release obstacles into platform improvements
- Set expectations for safe production releases and mentor engineers around you
What you bring
- At least five years as a software engineer, with substantial platform, infrastructure or production operations work
- You have hands-on experience with a deployment system used across a large organization, such as Harness or ArgoCD
- You have worked directly with Kubernetes and container-based releases
- You can program in Python, Go or Bash and use infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Helm
- You can turn unclear customer needs into measurable plans, deliver them and onboard users
Who this fits
This senior role suits an engineer who can set direction for a deployment platform, make sound tradeoffs and drive work independently. You’ll work with application teams and SRE and mentor other engineers. The role is hybrid in Foster City.
From the employer
Zoox is developing state-of-the-art autonomous vehicle software for our purpose-built vehicle. We believe that developing the end-to-end product will not only help us scale our services but will also result in a superior customer experience.
In this role, you will build and operate the continuous deployment platform that carries changes from merge to production. You will own both the platform and its adoption: building the paved path that every production change travels on and working directly with application teams to move them onto it. We are looking for an engineer who is opinionated about what the right path looks like, who has the judgment to decide where to hold the line and where to leave room for the team, and who has a strong bias toward execution. This is a critical role to remove friction from our release process, improve the deployment experience for everyone in the software organization, and ultimately help us scale our autonomous vehicle fleet to more riders and more cities.
In this role, you will:
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Own the reliability and operational excellence of our deployment platform
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Build and own the paved path for continuous delivery, and own the safety net that makes the platform trustworthy
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Work cross-functionally with application teams and SRE to move services onto the paved path, turning recurring friction into platform capability rather than one-off support
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Set the technical bar for how code is shipped safely to production, and mentor the engineers around you
Qualifications
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5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in platform, infrastructure, or production operations
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Hands-on experience with a continuous deployment system in a large organization, Harness preferred; ArgoCD, Spinnaker or other relevant systems
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Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments
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Expertise with programming languages like Python, Go, or Bash, and with "infrastructure as code" tools like Terraform and Helm
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Excellent customer-facing skills, turning fuzzy problems into concrete plans with measurable outcomes, driving delivery, and onboarding customers
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Judgment to pick the problem worth solving — you self-direct when the problem statement has not been written yet, and can tell a loud request from a high-impact one
Bonus Qualifications
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Building a multi-tenant internal platform that many teams depend on
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Experience migrating many teams off a legacy system onto a new one
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
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A Final Note: You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Zoox, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
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