Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack at Watney
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 12, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role at an autonomous robotics company focused on off-robot software systems. The work centers on building and maintaining video annotation platforms, VR teleoperation interfaces, customer portals, and cloud infrastructure capable of handling petabyte-scale telemetry data in real time. The role suits engineers with strong distributed systems or media pipeline backgrounds, ideally with Rust experience.
Senior level · National
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Rust is the explicitly preferred backend language, but the JD explicitly accepts strong C++/functional programming (Haskell, LISP) backgrounds as a path to learning Rust; C++ and Haskell are captured as alternatives.
The JD names no specific cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) — cloud infrastructure is listed as a general requirement.
No compensation, degree, or employment-type information is provided.
The role is titled simply 'Full Stack Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the scope — end-to-end ownership of petabyte-scale pipelines, architecture of off-robot systems, and deep distributed systems experience — clearly supports a Senior-level assessment.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): full-stack development.
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