Senior Software Development Engineer, Fauna

Fauna Robotics is building capable safe and delightful robots for everyday life. We are hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build cloud services that keep the fleet this role you will build the cloud foundation and applications that connect robots to customer experiences and internal operations as we scale.

The ideal candidate has built distributed systems that connect physical devices to cloud services end to end. They are comfortable building and operating the services they own from prototyping through launch and beyond. They make sound architectural tradeoffs across privacy security reliability delivery speed and cost when requirements are still evolving. They work effectively across robotics product and operations teams while remaining hands-on in design and implementation.

Key job responsibilities
- Build and own the cloud services that connect a growing fleet of robots to customer experiences and internal operations

- Build operational telemetry ingestion pipelines that process high-frequency robot signals

- Select technologies where the stack is undefined document the decisions and set patterns for a growing team

- Join the on-call rotation for the services you own and drive incident response

- Work with science engineering and product teams to define requirements and operationalize new workflows

About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.

We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.

Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.

At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.

If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
- Experience owning a service end to end: design implementation deployment monitoring and incident response

- Experience building backends for physical devices where clients drop off the network and return with stale state.
- Experience with device or fleet connectivity at scale: MQTT device identity and certificate management offline-tolerant sync or an IoT platform (AWS IoT Core Greengrass or equivalent).
- Experience with real-time telemetry ingestion and streaming (Kafka Kinesis or time-series stores).
- Experience with over-the-air update delivery and staged fleet rollouts.
- Experience securing connected devices: secure provisioning secrets management and data privacy.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and operational tooling (Terraform CDK Kubernetes).
- Experience in robotics automotive connected home or another domain where software runs on hardware in the field.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually