About the Role

Parallel Domain builds the synthetic data and simulation platform that autonomous-vehicle and robotics teams use to develop and validate their systems. The Development Platform team owns the connective tissue of the engineering org: the SDK and platform services every other team builds on, the tooling and CI that move code, and the contracts that hold products together.

We are hiring a senior software engineer for this team. Our area of ownership spans the entire engineering org, and our tech stack is wide and varied: Python and C++, data pipelines, databases, CI and build systems, transport layers, and cloud infrastructure. Engineers that thrive here are excited about following a problem wherever it leads instead of staying inside one technology.

The base pay range for this role is between CA$155,000 and CA$175,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Responsibilities

• •Own ambiguous projects end to end, deciding the approach yourself rather than waiting for a plan
• •Take a high-level product view of the features you ship, thinking past the immediate task to the user and the product
• •Think architecturally about complex systems, influencing how components are divided and how interfaces between parts are designed
• •Work across the full surface of the platform over time: Python pipelines and SDK, control-plane services and databases, CI and build systems, and the C++/gRPC service layer
• •Collaborate regularly with reconstruction/ML, content, and product engineering teams, often connecting work that spans more than one team
• •Make sound architectural calls, weigh tradeoffs pragmatically, and improve how the team designs, tests, and ships

What You Need to Succeed

• •Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end to end and driving them to completion
• •Proven track record of delivering complex projects involving multiple connected components
• •Experience building and operating production data or service pipelines, with comfort in databases and data modeling
• •Ability to move across unfamiliar, under-documented systems and get up to speed quickly
• •Strong collaboration and clear communication with both engineers and non-engineers

Skills and Technologies

• •Languages and Frameworks: Python, C++, gRPC, Proto, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, CMake
• •Systems and Infrastructure: Apache Airflow, AWS (including EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, and Lambda), Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• •Domain Experience: Build, CI/CD and Release Engineering; Cross-Product and Cross-Service Interfaces; Test Strategy and Quality Infrastructure; Familiarity with Simulation in Autonomous Systems

What Makes a Great Candidate

The best person for this role is energized by breadth and ambiguity. You would rather own a hard, fuzzy problem that crosses four systems than a well-defined ticket in one. You can be handed a goal instead of a plan and trusted to deliver, while making the team and the platform better as you go.