Staff Backend Software Engineer - Python
OusterOttawa, Ontario, Canada • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted January 13, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Ouster (Nasdaq: OUST) is a global leader in high-resolution scanning and solid-state lidar sensors and software solutions. Specializing in automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure sectors, the company aims to enhance safety and sustainability through affordable, high-performance technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Ouster drives mass adoption across diverse applications.
Job Description
Ouster is a NASDAQ listed company hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer - Python to work on its Ouster Studio application, improving architecture, developing and maintaining backend infrastructure, APIs, and creating new services. The role involves designing, architecting, building and maintaining a complex distributed system, developing robust Python code, and collaborating with internal software teams.
Requirements
- Design, architect, build and maintain a complex, in production, distributed system at scale
- Develop robust Python code to support product functionalities
- Work with the team and individually to architect and implement our cloud infrastructure and applications
- Collaborate on developing microservices to generate traffic analytics
- Architect solutions to satisfy requirements
- Break down design into engineering requirements
- Collaborate with other internal software teams
