Senior Software Engineer, Rust

Build the data infrastructure for robots operating in the real world.

Robotics is moving from research labs into production across factories, warehouses, vehicles, and field deployments. When robots fail, behave unexpectedly, or need to be improved, engineers rely on data to understand what actually happened.

At Foxglove, we build the observability, visualization, and data infrastructure that makes that possible. Our tools are used by robotics and autonomous systems teams to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze massive volumes of multimodal sensor data from live systems and from production fleets.

About the role

Foxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites.

We’re seeking a highly skilled product and Rust focused Software Engineer with professional experience delivering streaming and analytic workloads for robotics data. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our backend services, data processing pipelines, and interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime offload

Providing low-latency random-access (in device, time, sensors) playback over massive volumes of live or recorded data

Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)

Offloading data from remote devices in network constrained environments

Building systems to manage petabytes of multi-modal data reliably and efficiently

Our technical stack includes:

Ingestion, streaming, and other compute services in Rust and Typescript

PostgreSQL

Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP

Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

Endpoint software on customer robots written in Rust

What we're looking for

6+ years experience writing production software

2+ years experience using Rust professionally

Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code

Experience with binary data serialization or network communication protocols

Experience shipping software in network-constrained environments

Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users

Comfortable participating in on-call rotations

Excellent written & verbal communication skills

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Bonus points:

Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles

Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and/or Kubernetes

What we offer

Work remotely

$400 AUD monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace

Competitive equity grant in a Series B company

4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break

All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2 per year

Why Join Us

Impact: Own growth at a fast-growing, high-leverage moment for the company.

Mission: Accelerate the development of the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.

Team: Work with world-class engineers, designers, and researchers passionate about open-source and developer tools.

Ownership: Drive initiatives end-to-end, with high autonomy and visibility.