Lead Backend Software Engineer, Digital Assembly Line

Avala; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Zusammenfassung

Avala is seeking a Lead Backend Software Engineer to design and build the backend API stack for the Digital Assembly Line, handling petabytes of sensor data and enterprise integrations. You will set the technical direction for the Python/Django backend and lead architecture decisions.

You will design RESTful APIs, build large-scale data processing pipelines with Celery, and mentor junior engineers while focusing on performance, observability, and robust PostgreSQL schemas in a SF-based team.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years building production backend systems in Python (Django strongly preferred).
• Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration experience.
• Strong SQL and database design knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Experience with distributed task queues (Celery) at scale.

Aufgaben

• Design and build RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework for dataset management, annotation workflows, and export pipelines
• Architect large-scale data processing pipelines with Celery for LiDAR, camera, and radar data
• Implement monitoring, deployment, and observability systems
• Lead architecture decisions that power the Digital Assembly Line product
• Optimize PostgreSQL queries and schema design for datasets with millions of items
• Mentor junior engineers and establish backend engineering best practices

Kenntnisse

Python / Django

REST APIs

Celery

SQL / PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Buildkite / GitHub Actions

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Lead Backend Software Engineer, Digital Assembly Line

Posted 6 months ago San Francisco, CA full-time

About This Role

Design and build the backend API stack for Avala's ML Ops platform — the Digital Assembly Line that orchestrates annotation workflows, manages petabytes of sensor data, and powers enterprise integrations. You'll set the technical direction for our Python/Django backend.

What You'll Do

• Design and build RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework for dataset management, annotation workflows, and export pipelines


• Architect large-scale data processing pipelines with Celery for LiDAR, camera, and radar data


• Implement monitoring, deployment, and observability systems


• Lead architecture decisions that power the Digital Assembly Line product


• Optimize PostgreSQL queries and schema design for datasets with millions of items


• Mentor junior engineers and establish backend engineering best practices

Requirements

• 5+ years building production backend systems in Python (Django strongly preferred)


• Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration experience


• Strong SQL and database design knowledge


• CI/CD pipeline experience (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar)


• Experience with distributed task queues (Celery) at scale

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS services (ECS, Aurora, S3, SQS) in production


• Familiarity with ML data pipelines or annotation systems


• Experience building developer tools or APIs

What We Offer

Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the team building Fleet Learning Infrastructure for Physical AI

Full health, dental, and vision coverage, plus FSA and unlimited PTO

Work on the closed-loop data infrastructure that the next generation of autonomous systems learns from

A team that built Tesla Autopilot's data infrastructure, now building something bigger