Yandex sets an ambitious goal for itself — to create autonomous vehicle technology that would be more reliable than a human driver. We are developing autonomous cars and delivery robots. Both the autonomous car and the delivery robot are systems comprised of a vast number of components, starting from hardware and ending with object recognition and decision-making algorithms. To be better than a human, the vehicle needs to react as quickly as possible to changes in the road situation under conditions of strictly limited hardware resources.

We are looking for both strong engineers and managers to join the team that ensures the performance and efficiency of the autonomous transport software platform: reducing latencies, optimizing computational resource usage, building tools for system monitoring and performance analysis.

What tasks await you

System Performance Optimization You will analyze the system, find bottlenecks in autonomous vehicle processes and improve their performance, optimize resource usage, actively interact with other teams to build a complete picture from the obtained results, and support performance assurance processes.

Development and improvement of tools for performance analysis and monitoring You will ensure the convenience, completeness, and accuracy of information about the system's status, help colleagues debug performance issues, improve and optimize tools.

Support and development of the performance testing system You will need to find the majority of degradations during tests, not in the real world, devise new approaches to testing and resource forecasting.

Team and process management If you join us as a lead, you will also have to develop engineers, build technical processes, define the development vector for the performance infrastructure, and manage cross-team interaction.

More about backend at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for Backend

We expect that you

• Have worked with UNIX systems
• Know C++ and multithreaded programming
• Can explain your architectural decisions and convince others of their correctness
• Have managed a team

It will be a plus

• Have built infrastructure and monitoring for distributed systems
• Have worked on application optimization, reducing latency and increasing system and service performance
• Have used code profiling tools and analyzed the resulting profiles