Engineering Manager, Middleware Transport - Roadmap Lead

Zoox; Foster City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Unpaid time off

Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Long-term disability insurance

Life insurance

Long-term care insurance

Job summary

Zoox in Foster City, CA is seeking a seasoned software-engineering leader to own the Middleware Transport team's roadmap, staffing, and releases. You will grow and mentor engineers, drive cross-functional programs with firmware, security, simulation, fleet ops, and infrastructure, and set the technical bar to ensure reusable, scalable transport and networking abstractions.

You will balance reliability work with long-horizon architecture, and partner closely with internal customers to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, electrical / computer engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 9+ years of experience in software development, with 4+ years in a leadership role managing software engineers.
• Strong grounding in at least one: networked distributed systems, pub/sub and RPC middleware, vehicle or embedded networking, or transport protocols.
• Strong C++ programming experience with large code bases and technical dependencies.
• A track record of driving work that spans organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, staffing, and release commitments across the team's messaging, in-vehicle network, and cloud connectivity work.
• Lead and grow a team of software engineers, run their performance and promotion cycles, and hire into the gaps.
• Represent the team in cross-functional programs across firmware, product security, simulation, fleet operations, and infrastructure, and build the relationships that keep shared work moving.
• Set the technical bar. Make the architecture calls stick, and make sure the abstractions the team ships are ones other teams want to build on.
• Balance interrupt-driven reliability work against long-horizon architecture, and be explicit with partners about the tradeoff.

Skills

C++ programming

leadership

distributed systems

pub/sub / RPC middleware

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Electrical / Computer Engineering

Job description

Zoox in Foster City, CA is seeking a seasoned software-engineering leader to own the Middleware Transport team's roadmap, staffing, and releases. You will grow and mentor engineers, drive cross-functional programs with firmware, security, simulation, fleet ops, and infrastructure, and set the technical bar to ensure reusable, scalable transport and networking abstractions.

You will balance reliability work with long-horizon architecture, and partner closely with internal customers to align