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Staff Software Engineer, Routing

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted October 30, 2025
$213k - $320k
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Job Description

The role involves building and scaling backend systems and onboard modules for Nuro's routing services, focusing on optimizing routing algorithms, managing traffic, and enhancing the overall navigation experience for autonomous vehicles.

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 and ETA accuracy.
  • Develop monitoring and analytics infrastructure for routing services.
  • Optimize deployment pipelines for scalable and efficient system updates.
  • Collaborate with product, strategy, and operations teams to design user experiences and define product strategy.

Requirements

  • 8 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, etc., 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 being a quick learner.
  • Passion for making lives easier for developers and creating tooling to help engineers troubleshoot, debug, and profile applications.
  • Ability to make the right 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 deeply that work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $213,480 and $319,720 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity
A competitive benefits package

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