Geospatial Platform Tech Lead — Fullstack (Safety-Critical)

Socket.dev; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a technical lead for Geofencer, Zoox's geospatial platform guiding how autonomous vehicles operate. You will own architecture and delivery across the full stack, from an interactive map-editing frontend to geospatial backend services and release pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and ensure safety-critical systems meet high standards while collaborating with mapping, autonomy, and safety teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience building and operating production fullstack systems on large code bases.
• Strong proficiency in Python backend services and React with TypeScript/JavaScript, relational databases, async/task-queue architectures, and scripting/automation (Python, shell).
• Experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), containerized deployment, build systems, version control, testing methodologies, and CI/CD.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: driving multi-quarter projects, setting architectural direction, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of Geofencer across the stack (React/TypeScript SPA with deck.gl, Mapbox; Python backends using FastAPI/SQLAlchemy/GeoAlchemy2).
• Own core geospatial workflows: versioned geofence editing, road-network annotation, drivable-area computation, Plan of Record releases to fleet.
• Integrate with the Zoox ecosystem and ML-assisted annotation workflows.
• Operate production infrastructure: Bazel builds, Docker/Kubernetes deployment, observability tools, and CI/CD with automation scripts for migrations and bulk tasks.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and mentor engineers across the team.

Skills

10+ years experience

Python backend

React + TS/JS

Relational databases

Async task queues

Automation scripting

Linux

AWS

Containerized deployment

CI/CD

Version control

Testing methodologies

Technical leadership

Geospatial systems

Robotics / automotive software

ML-assisted data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/math or related field

Tools

deck.gl

Mapbox GL

PostgreSQL

PostGIS

Celery

Bazel

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Zoox is seeking a technical lead for Geofencer, Zoox's geospatial platform guiding how autonomous vehicles operate. You will own architecture and delivery across the full stack, from an interactive map-editing frontend to geospatial backend services and release pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and ensure safety-critical systems meet high standards while collaborating with mapping, autonomy, and safety teams.