Senior Go Backend Engineer - Real-Time Ride Systems

Nuro; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Nuro in California is seeking an experienced backend engineer to architect and operate scalable distributed systems powering ride planning and vehicle matching. You will design robust APIs, own features end-to-end, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable performance on real-time data streams.

Proficiency in Go and Google Cloud Platform, plus hands-on experience with CloudSQL/BigQuery/Redis, will position you to influence critical parts of our autonomous driving platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience with Go.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with reliability at scale.
• End-to-end product ownership from requirements through launch.
• Strong leadership: mentoring others and making tough trade-offs.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud Platform services (CloudSQL, BigQuery, Redis).

Responsibilities

• Backend services for ride planning, vehicle matching, and real-time trip execution.
• Integrate partner APIs (e.g., Uber) to route ride requests to Nuro vehicles.
• Build telemetry pipelines to surface live vehicle state to riders and operations.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems design

Backend engineering

Product ownership

Technical leadership

Tools

GCP

CloudSQL

BigQuery

Redis

Job description

Nuro in California is seeking an experienced backend engineer to architect and operate scalable distributed systems powering ride planning and vehicle matching. You will design robust APIs, own features end-to-end, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable performance on real-time data streams.

Proficiency in Go and Google Cloud Platform, plus hands-on experience with CloudSQL/BigQuery/Redis, will position you to influence critical parts of our autonomous driving platform.