Viam operates a robotics control platform with a polyglot backend (Go, C++, Python) and infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and edge environments. The engineering-led hiring pattern (10 engineers, 1 product role) and active decomposition work—splitting a monolith, building macroservices, implementing job queues—indicate a team scaling backend systems to handle distributed robot fleets. Pain points around edge resilience, flaky networks, and infrastructure overhead suggest Viam is moving from single-machine robotics toward multi-agent deployments at scale.
Tech Stack 29 technologies
Core StackTerraform Go C++ MongoDB Linux Svelte Vue gRPC AWS GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Python JavaScript TypeScript GCP Cloud Build ARM macOS Windows WebRTC Git Hugo Yaskawa Fanuc ABB ROS C
What Viam Is Building
◆Challenges
- Maintaining legacy pipelines
- Babysitting infrastructure
- Edge resilience
- Monolithic application decomposition
- Scaling backend services for robotics
- Flaky edge networks
- Complex build systems
- Deployment and evolution of surface finishing systems
- Reliable operation of robotic sanding systems
- Customer onboarding friction
▲Active Projects
- Resilience at the edge
- Hardware-adjacent systems
- Force multiplier
- Surface finishing stack
- Motion planning and execution services
- Implementing triggers
- Splitting out a macroservice from our app monolith
- Implementing a shared background job queue
- Build the golden paths
- Ci/cd pipeline design
Hiring Activity
10 roles · 2 in 30d
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