Senior Backend Engineer: Field Telemetry & Geospatial Data

Burnbot, Inc.; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

BurnBot in South San Francisco, CA is hiring a backend engineer to own the ingestion, storage, APIs, and reporting for field telemetry and video data. You will work closely with robotics and hardware teams to ensure reliable data pipelines and operational dashboards.

We seek 7+ years of backend production experience, with strong skills in distributed systems, time-series data, and cloud infrastructure. Occasional field visits in California may be required; remote work days possible for focused

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production.
• Distributed systems and data pipeline experience, especially with high-volume time-series data.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and infrastructure as code.
• Solid API design instincts and real database depth, including time-series or geospatial (PostGIS).
• Observability practice — you instrument first and guess second.
• Pragmatism about intermittent connectivity; the machine is not always online, and the data still has to arrive.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend that carries ingestion, storage, APIs, and reporting.
• Ingest at field scale: telemetry and heavy payloads from machines.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, cost, and data retention for terabytes of data.
• Develop treatment reporting: acres, coverage, and verification for customers.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Time-series data

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Observability

Offline data handling

Tools

PostGIS

Job description

BurnBot in South San Francisco, CA is hiring a backend engineer to own the ingestion, storage, APIs, and reporting for field telemetry and video data. You will work closely with robotics and hardware teams to ensure reliable data pipelines and operational dashboards.

We seek 7+ years of backend production experience, with strong skills in distributed systems, time-series data, and cloud infrastructure. Occasional field visits in California may be required; remote work days possible for focused