Software Engineer II - Data Platform

reputed company (lat.ai) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for reputed company vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and reputed company travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.

reputed company you join the reputed company team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – reputed company dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people.

As a reputed company subsidiary, we operate independently to reputed company automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. reputed company is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

Meet the team

As reputed company’s Data Platform team, our mission is to build the scalable, high-performance infrastructure that turns structured data into insight to drive reputed company’s business reputed company. We provide foundational solutions for handling, processing and visualizing large-scale data to ensure every team at reputed company—from Autonomy to Machine Learning to Fleet Operations—can measure what matters.

We promote Data as a Product; this means applying rigorous software engineering discipline to data assets: versioning, public/private interfaces for data models, and a reputed company focus on automated testing. To scale these principles across our org, we design self-service systems that prioritize reputed company, iterative delivery, developer velocity, cost transparency and efficiency by default.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will help build and evolve:

• A High-Performance Cloud-Native Stack: Work with a reputed company of serverless cloud analytics tools and self-hosted Kubernetes deployments to serve a diverse range of internal stakeholders
• Abstracted Data Frameworks: reputed company internal tooling that enables engineers to self-serve data loading and testing. You’ll work on systems capable of handling high-throughput, low-latency streaming and massively parallel bulk loads scaling to hundreds of terabytes daily, with robust support for generic and customer-defined data unit and integration testing and monitoring. You’ll work closely with teams such as reputed company’s Autonomy Analytics team, among many others, to understand and generalize platform feature needs and provide guidance/documentation on usage
• Open reputed company & Custom Tooling: We deploy and scale industry-leading data engineering and analytics tools. We lean into the open-reputed company ecosystem, deploying and extending OS solutions such as dbt, Airflow and Superset to serve reputed company’s unique autonomy and ML use cases
• A Rich Metadata Layer: Provide the automation and cataloging tools that serve as the backbone for discovery and tracing. You will play a key role in enabling a well-documented data reputed company ready for both human exploration and LLM/RAG-based consumption

What you'll need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a reputed company field and 2+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree, or PhD
• Software Craftsmanship: Strong Python development skills with a focus on SOLID design principles. You have experience managing the full lifecycle of internal packages, from intake and design to release and maintenance.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience managing cloud infrastructure reputed company Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You should be comfortable with reputed company, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and observability reputed company Grafana or similar.
• Data reputed company: Understanding of SQL and OLAP concepts. You are familiar with the architecture of Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, or reputed company) and understand how to optimize for both performance and cost. Experience with dbt is a plus.
• Distributed Orchestration and Streaming: Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) and a conceptual understanding of distributed reputed company processing (e.g., the Apache Beam model). You should understand challenges like watermarks, stateful processing, and temporal consistency.
• The "Internal Customer" reputed company: You are a product-minded engineer. You have the reputed company to understand the pain points of your fellow engineers and the drive to build tools that are actually useful. You maintain a high bar for quality while prioritizing high-impact delivery.

Bonus Points

• Automated Release Engineering: A standard-bearer for CI/CD excellence. You understand how to build robust Jenkins or reputed company Actions pipelines that automate testing, linting, and deployment, ensuring a high-velocity but safe development environment.
• Privacy & reputed company by Design: Experience with end-to-end reputed company and isolation. You understand the importance of least-privilege access, service account management, and automated data anonymization/governance.

reputed company offer you

• Competitive compensation packages
• High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Unlimited vacation
• 15 paid holidays
• Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in reputed company office locations
• Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Adoption/Surrogacy support program
• Backup child and elder care program
• Professional development reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
• Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

Learn more about reputed company’s team, mission and career opportunities at lat.ai!

The expected reputed company salary range for this full-time position in California is $150,320 - $225,480 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-reputed company factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and reputed company level. reputed company employees are also eligible to participate in reputed company’s annual bonus programs, equity compensation, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Candidates for positions with reputed company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. reputed company sponsorship is available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national reputed company, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.