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Software Engineer, Backend – Data Systems, AI/Robotics
Location
United States
Posted
53 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Backend – Data Systems, AI/Robotics
Trace
• Build and scale our capture-to-cloud pipeline (ingestion, uploads, processing, storage, access) • Drive performance work across compression, reliability, observability, and robustness of our data pipeline. • Build internal services and tools that unblock capture and operations teams • Partner closely with ops to shorten the loop from capture to customer-ready data • Help define technical direction and engineering best practices as the team scales
Job Requirements
- Strong backend fundamentals: distributed systems, APIs, databases, queues, storage
- Experience owning systems end to end, including when things break
- Comfort operating without a lot of structure and helping create it
- Product-minded builder who is comfortable translating real world feedback into better systems and experiences
- Clear communicator with high accountability
- Emotional maturity and good judgment under pressure
- Bonus points: Robotics, autonomy, CV, or sensor-adjacent environments
- Bonus points: Video pipelines, media processing, or large-file transfer experience
- Bonus points: Internal tooling or ops-support systems
Benefits
- A world-changing problem: Physical AI will reshape entire industries, but it cannot scale without real-world data. Trace is addressing one of the core constraints holding the field back.
- Early but real traction: Active pilots with growing demand on both sides of the marketplace.
- Experienced, tight-knit team: Ex founders, PhDs, and operators with a track record of building and scaling together.
- Real ownership: This is early. Your work will materially shape the product, systems, and direction of the company.
- Foundational platform: We are building core infrastructure that enables many future products and use cases as physical AI evolves.
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