Staff Software Engineer

Wherobots
Wherobots

Software Engineering

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on Jul 13, 2026
Wherobots Inc. seeks Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA Job DutiesDesign and develop company’s Cloud data management solution. Use Java, Golang, and Python to build in-house services to enable cloud-based serverless geospatial data analytics at scale for the company’s customers and users. Contribute to the open-source project Apache Sedona, the core computing engine the company’s SaaS is based on, and its enterprise version WherobotsDB. Lead the development of the company’s computation applications orchestration system, which deploys and destroys the workloads for computation tasks to multiple regions. Utilize Temporal as the task distribution queue. Manage Kubernetes as the container orchestration cluster. Contribute to the company’s backend service development with Python Web Frameworks. Contribute to DevOps practices. Use Terraform to build the Infra-As-Code solution to avoid manual Infra manipulation. Integrate with GitHub Actions to enhance the service CI/CD experiences, using Python to write scripts, and Helm for Kubernetes resource templating and deployment. Serve on-call for the online services. Support the sales team to solve technical inquiries and feature requests from users. Inspect system logs, troubleshoot the errors, and hot-fixing the issues. Telecommuting is an option. Minimum RequirementsMaster’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline, and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field. Special Skill Requirements(1) Iceberg table format, RDMS, and Cloud storage solutions (AWS S3, GCS, and Azure ADLS Gen2); (2) Java, Golang, and Python; (3) Temporal; (4) Kubernetes; (5) CI/CD; (6) Terraform; (7) DevOps; (8) data management; (9) scalable and reliable backend services development and operation; (10) GitHub. Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Telecommuting is an option. Salary Range$215,000.00-275,000.00 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.About WherobotsWherobots was founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona to build the first fully-managed, highly scalable geospatial cloud database and analytics platform: Wherobots Cloud. Geospatial, location-enabled, and satellite imagery data are quickly becoming a critical and valuable source of information and insights to a broad array of industries, from logistics and insurance to financial or climate tech companies. Wherobots helps those companies bring their geospatial data down to earth and drive value from it for their business and their customers through full-featured and scalable computation, querying, analytics, and visualization capabilities.