Senior Big Data Infrastructure Engineer

About TuSimple

TuSimple is a global self-driving truck company based in San Diego and operating self-driving trucks out of Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready Level 4 (SAE) fully-autonomous driving solution for the logistics industry. TuSimple’s trucks are the first and only capable of self-driving from depot-to-depot and do so every day for its customers. The company is driven by a mission to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions.

Position

HD Map data is the major offline data on a running autonomous driving vehicle that makes L4 autonomous driving possible. As a Senior Big Data Infrastructure Engineer on the TuSimple Maps team, you will develop our critical infrastructure systems and frameworks for storing large volumes of both structured and unstructured data, and providing scalable services such as search, data processing, and analytics. Your work will empower the whole autonomous driving pipeline, both the algorithm research side and the engineering development side, with access to a large volume and variety of map data.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust and scalable data management systems for storing and indexing large volumes of both structured and unstructured data.
• Develop robust and highly scalable data infrastructure for searching.
• Develop data infrastructure and framework for processing data at a very large scale.
• Monitoring data performance and modifying infrastructure as needed.
• Define data retention policies.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.

Your qualification

• At least 5+ years of experience in building and launching very large-scale data infrastructure production systems.
• Expert knowledge in large scale data management systems in both RDBMS such as Postgres, and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra or HBase.
• Structured and full-text indexing and search domain knowledge, experience with search technology such as Elasticsearch.
• Experience with design, develop, and deploy large-scale internet services in public cloud such as AWS.
• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop or Spark.
• Experience in monitoring large scale data infrastructure system performance and troubleshooting incidents, identifying root cause, and implementing solutions.
• Good communication skills and team player.

Will be a plus

• Visa sponsorship is available for this position 
• Opportunity for professional growth and career advancement
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Up to a 30% discretionary bonus. 
• Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Shape the landscape of autonomous driving
• 100% Company paid Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance plan
• Company 401(K) program
• Company paid life insurance
• Company paid education/training.
• Company paid gym membership.