Senior Backend Engineer for Robotic Platforms

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs for robotic platforms.

You will provide technical leadership across design, architecture, and engineering practices, collaborating with embedded, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver scalable, testable solutions. You will design and implement REST/GRPC APIs, relational data models, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines, while maintaining quality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Backend services and API development in Java/Go/Python.
• REST/GRPC API design with docs/versioning/backward-compatibility.
• Postgres relational DB design and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services and APIs for robotic platforms.
• Architect and develop service capabilities: config mgmt, updates, workflows, telemetry.

Skills

Backend languages

API design

Relational DB

CI/CD

Containerization

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs for robotic platforms.

You will provide technical leadership across design, architecture, and engineering practices, collaborating with embedded, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver scalable, testable solutions. You will design and implement REST/GRPC APIs, relational data models, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines, while maintaining quality and compliance.