Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer, Dexterity
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
Open for applications
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Redwood City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Dexterity's mission is to help people thrive and grow by freeing them to do work that humans do best, by transforming the world to make work more purposeful.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure software development, SRE, production engineering, and/or backend service development
- Experience in building and shipping high quality, scalable infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience in C++ or Go as well as a scripting language like Python
- Deep understanding of linux – especially around bootloaders, connectivity, memory management, filesystems, kernel, and drivers
- Strong systematic analysis and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or other cgroups based systems
- Expertise in source code & build systems: git and bazel
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Projects
- Strong understanding of software delivery pipelines and CI/CD best practices
- Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
- Fantastic communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
Desirable
- In-depth understanding of build systems like Bazel & release best practices
- Experience in implementing security focused infrastructure features
- Deep networking experience
- Work on debugging, tracing, monitoring, and logging tooling
What the job involves
- We are looking for a great staff infrastructure software engineer to design and build systems and services for on-device software delivery to robots in the field!
- The Software Platform Infrastructure team works closely with other software engineering teams throughout the company to ensure that Robotics operating system and software delivery is reliable, scalable, and efficient
- Design and build infrastructure to enable safe systems and software delivery for Dexterity in production
- You will be part of a multidisciplinary team of folks with SWE, SRE, and systems engineer skill sets
- While this is a software engineering position, you will also bring an SRE sensibility to systems design
- Et direction for infrastructure quality and reliability
- Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers on the team and foster a collaborative work environment
- Lead by example by providing code reviews and evangelizing engineering excellence across the Software Platform team
- Guide tooling development and optimization of production systems
Our take
Dexterity emerged from stealth at an opportune, albeit tough, time in 2020, just as an accelerating labour crunch drove major demand for automated solutions in factories and warehouses. The company managed a major fundraise and immediately moved on to bigger and better things: expanding into the Japanese market, partnering with supply chain automation leader Dematic and achieving unicorn status with a greater than $1 billion valuation.
Unlike other companies which are fixated on developing increasingly sophisticated, more human-like robots, Dexterity’s takes a comparatively simple hardware approach. Its machines take care of highly repetitive tasks, while its SaaS platform shares everything it learns with each robot, amplifying intelligence across the fleet. Rather than seeking to replace human workforces it aims to augment them, freeing skilled workers for more complex tasks.
Considering that the worldwide labour shortage is heavily impacting the industrial sector, Dexterity is in a promising position to continue its upward trajectory over the next few years.. Indeed its recent partnerships with Sumitomo to supply 1,500 Dexterity robots in their warehouses and with FedEx for autonomous trailer loading are encouraging signs of things to come for the company.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$56.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $196.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits for you and your family
- Retirement plan (subject to country of employment)
- Wellbeing and fitness offerings
- Insurance programs
- Discounts and perks
- Meals and snacks at our sites
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Samir Menon
(CEO)Former Software Design Engineer at Microsoft India R&D, former Research Assistant at Simon Fraser University. Before founding Dexterity they spent 10 years at Stanford University, gaining a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) & Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science.
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