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Backend Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 112 days ago
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About the role
- You'll navigate the full range of backend challenges (scalability, reliability, security, latency) while integrating tightly with embedded hardware in a fast-moving startup environment.
- You'll work as an equal member of our 3-4 person software team.
- We are currently a flat team, but you'll be expected to coach and mentor Skippers with less experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize data storage and retrieval processes, scaling up storage buckets and data ingestion pipelines to meet increasing data demands.
- Manage and streamline CI/CD workflows currently hosted in GitHub, reducing costs by optimizing test run segmentation and potentially hosting CI on GCP VMs.
- Monitor and optimize infrastructure, ensuring efficient usage of compute and storage resources
- Develop automation scripts and processes for infrastructure provisioning, backups, monitoring, and maintenance, enhancing system stability and scalability.
- Implement security best practices across backend and infrastructure to ensure data protection and system reliability.
- Collaborate with frontend, hardware, and controls teams to ensure smooth data flow across the system.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and data-intensive applications
- Experience with cloud infrastructure like GCP
- Strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, e.g. Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. GitHub Actions
- Experience with IoT and edge devices
- Ability to relocate to work at the Skip Bay Area office
- Experience in scaling and managing data pipelines for high-volume data ingestion using Beam/dataflow
- Experience with a UI framework like Dart/Flutter or Angular/TS
- Experience with Rust, robotics or mechatronics (ST/TI firmware, SPI/UART, BLE, etc)
Skills
- Automate infrastructure setup and management using tools like Terraform, making the deployment process more reproducible and scalable.
Benefits
- Engage in code reviews and knowledge sharing to promote a culture of continuous learning.
Company info
- Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement.
- Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.
- Skip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc'teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.
- Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health.
- Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability.
- We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences.
- We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.
- Skip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023.
- With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc'teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.
- We are seeking a highly motivated and adaptable backend engineer to own the systems powering a new generation of wearable robots. from APIs and data pipelines connecting devices to the cloud, to the infrastructure behind real-time telemetry, over-the-air updates, and fleet management.
- You'll be responsible for backend development and cloud infrastructure as we build a new consumer robotics platform.
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