Senior Software Engineer at Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Job description

• Job Description
• We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs that support our robotic fleet and associated application workflows. The successful candidate will design and build services and APIs that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and easy to integrate with internal and external systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services and APIs that support our robotic fleet and associated application workflows.
• Develop service capabilities such as configuration management and telemetry data ingestion.
• Implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end testing within CI pipelines.
• Contribute to CI/CD, observability, and operational practices that support small, frequent, and high-confidence releases.
• Ensure services and APIs include first-class documentation, health endpoints, and uptime monitoring.
• Partner with embedded, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver solutions that are useful and broadly adoptable.
• Collaborate with security and quality teams to ensure solutions meet compliance and operational requirements.

Requirements

• Qualifications
• Strong experience building backend services and APIs in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience designing REST or GRPC APIs with clear contracts, documentation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, service-side data modeling, and transactional system design.
• Experience with automated testing, Gitlab CI/CD, and AWS-based deployment practices for backend services.
• Experience with containerized deployment and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EKS.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concerns such as reliability, failure handling, observability, and operational support.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years relevant experience in software engineering, including backend services or API development.
• Experience working with medical devices or other regulated industries.
• Experience with defining and implementing data privacy requirements.

Skills

Required

• Backend services and APIs development
• Java, Go, Python, or similar languages
• REST or GRPC API design
• Relational databases (e.g., Postgres)
• Automated testing
• Gitlab CI/CD
• AWS deployment practices
• Distributed systems concepts
• Troubleshooting and incident management
• Problem-solving
• Collaboration

Preferred

• Data privacy implementation

Benefits

• This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
• business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
• Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
• candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.
• We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.