Software Integration Engineer

TL;DR

Software Integration Engineer (Agentic Platform): Own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal clients, backends, workloads, and cloud operations with an accent on architecture, security, and stable tool contracts. Focus on defining testable milestones, repeatable releases, debugging boundary issues, and ensuring reliable tool call paths across HTTP with correct authentication and environment parity.

Foster City, CA / Hybrid

$214,000 - $236,000 a year

Company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design.

What you will do

• Own and lead integration strategy across hosted services, shared libraries, standardized tool protocols like JSON-RPC over HTTP, REST APIs, and diverse callers.
• Drive cross-functional delivery with backend API teams, partner agent owners, security, SRE/platform, and program management.
• Debug and root-cause complex failures using structured logs, distributed traces, metrics, and gateway behavior, creating durable mitigations and runbooks.
• Define and review integration artifacts like contracts, allowlists, registry config, environment matrices, and interface assumptions.
• Contribute to release gating with container image promotion, configuration posture, smoke tests, and disciplined branching for production.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years of software engineering experience in integration, platform, or backend roles.
• Strong Python for production services, async I/O, automated testing, and comfort in a large monorepo with CI-driven delivery.
• Deep experience with HTTP integration (REST/JSON-RPC, TLS, debugging under load) and shipping services on Kubernetes.
• Auth integration experience: bearer tokens, JWT validation, OAuth2/OIDC or enterprise SSO concepts, and least-privilege scoping.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent tool-calling models.
• Observability-led habits: metrics, traces, structured logging, SLO/dashboard thinking.
• Background in security-sensitive integrations with data minimization and compliance reviews.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including paid time off (sick leave, vacation, bereavement), unpaid time off, health insurance, long-term/short-term disability, life insurance, long-term care insurance.
• Compensation includes base salary, Amazon RSUs, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, possible sign-on bonus.
• Fast-moving, highly execution-oriented team focused on innovation in autonomous mobility.