Demo

Software Engineer

Bessemer Venture Partners India
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2026
Build the data infrastructure for robots operating in the real world.

Robotics is moving from research labs into production across factories, warehouses, vehicles, and field deployments. When robots fail, behave unexpectedly, or need to be improved, engineers rely on data to understand what actually happened.

At Foxglove, we build the observability, visualization, and data infrastructure that makes that possible. Our tools are used by robotics and autonomous systems teams to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze massive volumes of multimodal sensor data from live systems and from production fleets.

About The Role

We're looking for a product-minded Software Engineer who is equally comfortable reasoning through a user problem and diving deep into a performance-critical systems codebase. You'll work across our desktop and web visualization app, our data ingestion and streaming backend, and the on-robot client libraries that tie everything together.

This is a generalist role, you'll follow the work wherever it takes you, whether that's optimizing a decode path in Rust, extending our MCAP tooling in C , wiring up a new data source in TypeScript, or partnering with customers to understand what's slowing them down.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and ship product features end-to-end, from understanding customer needs to writing, reviewing, and deploying code
  • Work across our technology stack — from on-device Rust/C libraries to cloud backend services to the browser-based visualization app
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data-intensive pipelines: ingestion, decoding, streaming, and rendering
  • Contribute to MCAP and other open-source libraries that the broader robotics community relies on
  • Collaborate directly with customers and the robotics community to understand requirements and validate solutions
  • Help maintain the high engineering bar and culture of ownership that defines the Foxglove team
  • Build systems to efficiently store and query petabytes of robotics data

What We're Looking For

  • 5 years of experience writing production software
  • Strong proficiency in Rust, C , Go, or Java. You've shipped systems-level code that handles real load
  • Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code
  • A product instinct: you care not just about correctness but about whether the thing you built actually solves the user's problem
  • Comfortable moving across the stack, you may not be an expert in every layer, but you can get oriented quickly and contribute meaningfully
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related embedded/real-time systems
  • Experience working on a data storage product
  • Familiarity with ROS, ROS 2, or other robotics middleware
  • Experience with data serialization formats or binary protocols (MCAP, Protobuf, CDR, etc.)
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend experience
  • Familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) or Kubernetes

What We Offer

  • $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
  • Competitive equity grant in a Series B company
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
  • 401(k) matching up to 4%
  • 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
  • All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2× per year

Why Join Us

  • Impact: Own growth at a fast-growing, high-leverage moment for the company.
  • Mission: Accelerate the development of the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.
  • Team: Work with world-class engineers, designers, and researchers passionate about open-source and developer tools.
  • Ownership: Drive initiatives end-to-end, with high autonomy and visibility.

Compensation Range: $150K - $240K

Build the data infrastructure for robots operating in the real world.

Robotics is moving from research labs into production across factories, warehouses, vehicles, and field deployments. When robots fail, behave unexpectedly, or need to be improved, engineers rely on data to understand what actually happened.

At Foxglove, we build the observability, visualization, and data infrastructure that makes that possible. Our tools are used by robotics and autonomous systems teams to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze massive volumes of multimodal sensor data from live systems and from production fleets.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and ship product features end-to-end, from understanding customer needs to writing, reviewing, and deploying code
  • Work across our technology stack — from on-device Rust/C libraries to cloud backend services to the browser-based visualization app
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data-intensive pipelines: ingestion, decoding, streaming, and rendering
  • Contribute to MCAP and other open-source libraries that the broader robotics community relies on
  • Collaborate directly with customers and the robotics community to understand requirements and validate solutions
  • Help maintain the high engineering bar and culture of ownership that defines the Foxglove team
  • Build systems to efficiently store and query petabytes of robotics data

What We're Looking For

  • 5 years of experience writing production software
  • Strong proficiency in Rust, C , Go, or Java. You've shipped systems-level code that handles real load
  • Experience writing highly performant, memory-efficient code
  • A product instinct: you care not just about correctness but about whether the thing you built actually solves the user's problem
  • Comfortable moving across the stack, you may not be an expert in every layer, but you can get oriented quickly and contribute meaningfully
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related embedded/real-time systems
  • Experience working on a data storage product
  • Familiarity with ROS, ROS 2, or other robotics middleware
  • Experience with data serialization formats or binary protocols (MCAP, Protobuf, CDR, etc.)
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend experience
  • Familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) or Kubernetes

What We Offer

  • $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
  • Competitive equity grant in a Series B company
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
  • 401(k) matching up to 4%
  • 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
  • All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2× per year

Why Join Us

  • Impact: Own growth at a fast-growing, high-leverage moment for the company.
  • Mission: Accelerate the development of the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.
  • Team: Work with world-class engineers, designers, and researchers passionate about open-source and developer tools.
  • Ownership: Drive initiatives end-to-end, with high autonomy and visibility.

Compensation Range: $150K - $240K

Salary : $300

If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Software Engineer?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Software Engineer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$77,657 - $95,021
Income Estimation: 
$97,257 - $120,701
Income Estimation: 
$117,871 - $153,580
Income Estimation: 
$131,745 - $167,716
Income Estimation: 
$144,503 - $184,592
Income Estimation: 
$102,541 - $137,871
Income Estimation: 
$153,752 - $200,235
Employees: Get a Salary Increase
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Bessemer Venture Partners India

  • Bessemer Venture Partners India York, NY
  • Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. ** The Head of Business Transfo... more
  • 1 Day Ago

  • Bessemer Venture Partners India Irvine, CA
  • Austin, TX/Akron, Ohio/Irvine, CA Customer Success – Customer Success Management / Full Time / Hybrid apply for this job The Customer Success Manager, Ente... more
  • 1 Day Ago

  • Bessemer Venture Partners India Irvine, CA
  • Austin, TX/Akron, Ohio/Irvine, CA / Irvine, CA Sales Growth – Sales Channel / Full Time / Hybrid apply for this job Restaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupt... more
  • 1 Day Ago

  • Bessemer Venture Partners India San Francisco, CA
  • About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and ... more
  • 1 Day Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Software Engineer jobs in the San Francisco, CA area that may be a better fit.

  • Beacon Software San Francisco, CA
  • Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable series B firm that combines great... more
  • 10 Days Ago

  • Advent Software, Inc. San Francisco, CA
  • As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000 employees... more
  • 1 Month Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!