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Intuitive
Full time
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USA
11/02/2026
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Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities

Build scalable distributed systems using event-based and streaming pipelines for robot, manufacturing, and clinical data.
Provide self-service APIs and applications for users to access and interact with data.
Evolve data models with core engineering teams as business needs grow.
Apply software development, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and microservice practices.
Participate in planning, code reviews, KPI reviews, and design discussions.
Lead data-domain technical practices, mentor teammates, and improve how data is produced, shared, and consumed.
Provide architectural direction and improve data platform reliability, performance, developer productivity, and accessibility.

Requirements

Fluency in at least two of Python, Go, Scala, Java, and C++.
Proven experience building data pipelines and distributed systems with technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, and Airflow.
Deep knowledge of event-driven pipelines, message queues, container orchestration, stream processing, relational databases, data warehouses, analytics engineering, workflow orchestration, and search engines.
Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, unit testing, integration testing, and deployment patterns.
Experience with AWS and/or GCP, SQL, and relational databases.
Ability to work collaboratively across functions and take end-to-end ownership.
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in a technically demanding role.
Preferred experience includes platform-team work, GitLab CI/CD or other CI tooling, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, infrastructure-as-code practices, and CNCF projects.
A Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, or a related field is preferred.

Benefits

Employee position with a day shift.
Onsite weekly on a set schedule, with the percentage of onsite work defined by the leader.
Market-competitive compensation packages including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
Vaccination proof may be required depending on the role and customer requirements.

Salary: $190k - $322k/yr

Intuitive

Intuitive is a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery, specializing in minimally invasive care that enhances the healing potential of physicians and improves patient outcomes. We are dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery through innovative technology and intelligent design, making life...

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