Platform Engineer
Zoox
Software Engineering
Foster City, CA, USA
USD 165k-208k / year + Equity
Posted on Jan 16, 2026
The SW HIL (hardware in the loop) team ensures that the testing environment for the system and subsystem improves in uptime, reliability, and feature set. To aid the adoption of our testing framework for use by other teams, the SW HIL team collaborates in test development and maintains key tests that exercise the functionality of the testing framework.
We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, self-starting Platform Engineer to join our Systems Reliability and Stability team. This position will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep, design, and maintenance of various engineering services. You will oversee and collaborate with other teams to ensure the high uptime of our robot testing platforms while measuring and improving their stability, accuracy, and usability.
In this role you will:
- Responsible for measuring and maintaining the uptime of various services critical to the development of autonomous vehicles, such as testing and validation of on-vehicle software for hardware platforms.
- Involved with all phases of rolling out various services, from design, deployment, operations, support, automation, and continuous improvement
- Work with systems handling large volumes of data and data processing pipelines while performing compute-intensive tasks on CPUs and GPUs
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or related field
- 5+ years supporting in-production services, on-call rotations, and SRE responsibilities
- Proficient in Python or Golang
- Experience building and managing infrastructure services
- Experience writing code for system-level automation, building resilient infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency with testing frameworks, hands-on at the system/integration level
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes)
- Linux system administration experience, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
Bonus Qualifications
- Built software services, wrote APIs for backend services, owned and managed full-stack applications
- Experience with CI toolchains such as Bamboo, Bazel, and test frameworks such as Pytest
- Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt
- Familiarity with Python test automation frameworks and test fixture design
- Experience in provisioning and managing ephemeral test environments
165000 - 208000 USD a year
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.