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Zoox

Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Deployment

Zoox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Deployment in Foster City, United States. It pays $219k-$271k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Zoox.

Level's read on this job

  • Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
  • The listed pay starts 31% above the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 235 other open roles at Zoox.

AI in this role

Build and operate the continuous deployment platform for autonomous vehicle software.

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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:

  • Own the reliability and operational excellence of our deployment platform

  • Build and own the paved path for continuous delivery, and own the safety net that makes the platform trustworthy

  • 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

  • Set the technical bar for how code is shipped safely to production, and mentor the engineers around you

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in platform, infrastructure, or production operations

  • Hands-on experience with a continuous deployment system in a large organization, Harness preferred; ArgoCD, Spinnaker or other relevant systems

  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments

  • Expertise with programming languages like Python, Go, or Bash, and with "infrastructure as code" tools like Terraform and Helm

  • Excellent customer-facing skills, turning fuzzy problems into concrete plans with measurable outcomes, driving delivery, and onboarding customers

  • 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

  • Building a multi-tenant internal platform that many teams depend on

  • 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.

How we rate this

Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Deployment at Zoox rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

This job starts at
$219k
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$168k

This posting starts 31% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

  1. What's a project where you used Kubernetes hands-on?
  2. Walk me through how you've used Terraform in your day-to-day work.
  3. What are the limits of Helm that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
  4. What's a project where you used Python hands-on?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Go in your day-to-day work.

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