About the position
Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data and automation in the physical world. We provide a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. This team owns our developer tooling, supports the reliability and performance of our systems across multiple platforms, and plays a key role in unblocking our engineers and our customers to ship quickly and confidently. An exciting aspect of this role is that the tooling you'll develop is widely used; customers leveraging the Viam platform will rely on these tools to build and deploy their own pluggable hardware drivers, software services, and ML models through the Viam Registry, enabling them to connect new machines and capabilities to the platform. If you thrive on solving challenging technical problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and driving meaningful improvements, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Own and improve our developer platform, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer environments
- Partner with engineering teams to prototype and integrate AI/ML capabilities into our developer tooling
- Design better developer testing infrastructure to ensure seamless hardware and cross-platform support
- Manage the full lifecycle of our cloud infrastructure, including multi-region availability planning and cost optimization
- Partner with other teams to support complex customer projects and deliver robust cross-platform solutions
- Help shape our incident response strategy and enhance observability practices across the organization
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams, Solutions Engineering, and company leadership
Requirements
- Strong programming skills, familiar with or open to learning Go
- Deep systems experience with Linux (especially ARM/aarch64), and comfort working across Windows and macOS
- Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS) and building CI/CD & build pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
- Comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Systems-thinking mindset and strong debugging skills across networking, filesystems, permissions, and real-world edge environments
- Ability to work independently and drive cross-team initiatives in a high-context environment
- Ability to write clearly and document tools and workflows for others to build on
Nice-to-haves
- Worked in IoT or other hardware/software environments
- Experience with WebRTC, gRPC, or real-time communication systems
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Background on a Developer Productivity, Platform Engineering, or Internal Tools team
Benefits
- Starting salary of $235,000/year
- 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans
- Commuter benefits
- Competitive salary & equity packages
- Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
- 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
- One Medical Membership
- Citi Bike memberships
- Monthly wellness stipend for fitness-related items
- Free lunch every day that you’re in the office
- Paid parental leave
