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Senior Software Engineer, Routing

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted December 2, 2025
$176k - $265k
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Job Description

The role involves developing and scaling backend systems and onboard modules for Nuro's routing services, focusing on optimizing routes, improving ETAs, and managing traffic for autonomous vehicles to ensure safe and efficient navigation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and scale backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team.
  • Design microservices and optimize routing algorithms.
  • Understand and work with road network graphs to improve routing accuracy.
  • Develop monitoring and analytics infrastructure for routing performance.
  • Collaborate with product, strategy, and operations teams to design user experiences and define product roadmap.

Requirements

  • At least 3-5 years of experience building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
  • Experience working on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance.
  • Proficiency in C programming.
  • Knowledge of how to choose the right storage technology for the job.
  • Experience with a wide range of databases, including relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, non-relational databases such as BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, and data warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake.
  • Familiarity with RPC frameworks such as gRPC and Thrift.
  • Experience with pubsub systems such as Kafka, Cloud PubSub, and Celery.
  • Experience in training and inferencing machine learning models.
  • Extensive experience working with cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.
  • Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes, or willingness to learn.
  • Strong technical skills with a love for learning new technologies and a quick learning ability.
  • Passion for making lives easier for developers through tooling that helps troubleshoot, debug, and profile applications.
  • Ability to make appropriate tradeoffs between quick-and-dirty solutions and scalable approaches.
  • Ability to work closely with product and design teams to build the best product for users.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with PMs, UXRs, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Impact-driven mindset, caring about the significant impact of work on the lives of millions of people.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $176,400 and $264,600 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package

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