Staff Software Engineer — End-to-End Rust Platform

Watney

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Watney Robotics in San Francisco is seeking a full-stack engineer to own our software ecosystem end-to-end, spanning high-throughput backend infrastructure, enterprise customer platforms, and interactive web frontends. You will help build an end-to-end type-safe stack with Rust on the backend and contribute to production systems alongside hardware-infused robotics capabilities.

You will work across video-heavy annotation platforms, VR teleoperation interfaces, and secure customer portals, with

Qualifications

Production Rust experience on backend services.
Experience with large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure.
Background in C++ or functional languages (Haskell, Lisp) to learn Rust.
Experience at the intersection of hardware, simulations, or autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

Own the Core Platforms: Drive end-to-end development for video-heavy annotation platforms, VR teleoperation interfaces, and secure customer portals.
Architect Off-Robot Systems: Build cloud infrastructure, load balancing, and high-throughput pipelines to ingest and process petabyte-scale telemetry streams in real time.
Lead Live Operations: Maintain code cleanliness through rigorous integration testing while managing live systems via OpenTelemetry (OTEL) tracking.