Senior Software Engineer, Core Platforms

Company Introduction

At Bot Auto, we are revolutionizing the transportation of goods with our cutting-edge autonomous trucks, enhancing the quality of life for communities around the globe. With the agility of a start-up and the wisdom of seasoned experts, Bot Auto boasts a team that has achieved numerous world-firsts and unparalleled innovations. United by a shared vision, we create miracles and propel the future of transportation. Join us and transform your dreams into reality.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer, Core Platforms to own the systems that carry Bot Auto's autonomous driving software from a developer's commit to a running truck. This is a deliberately broad, hands-on role spanning build and release engineering, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, core platform services, and the operation platforms that run our fleet — with security built into every layer. You will own the C++ build and packaging toolchain that every autonomy team depends on, the CI/CD and container image pipelines that release it, the Kubernetes platform and infrastructure-as-code beneath them, and the backend and edge services that connect our cloud to the vehicle. As a hands-on technical leader, you will be a primary reviewer and escalation point for the engineering organization, and will set the standards that keep a fast-moving codebase releasable, observable, and secure

Key Responsibilities

- Design and support company-wide event-driven architecture with messaging and streaming platforms, including stream and consumer provisioning and the shared IDL/schema services depend on.

- Develop and operate API gateways that provide secure, scalable, and reliable access to internal and external services.

- Design and build backend services for artifact and resource management, fleet data, and operations — including event-driven frameworks, object storage pipelines, durable state, and distributed locking.

- Develop the on-vehicle edge services that connect trucks to cloud platforms, covering event forwarding, credential and certificate management, and fleet-wide deployment.

- Build identity, authorization, and least-privilege access across services, devices, and the fleet — RBAC, JWT issuance and verification, service principals, and SSO integration.

- Own certificate and key management, including internal PKI, mTLS between cloud and vehicle, and the secrets lifecycle and rotation.

- Own and evolve the C++ build, dependency-resolution, and packaging toolchain (Conan/CMake-based) used across every autonomy repository, including dependency solving, version constraints, and cross-context consistency.

- Design and maintain container image pipelines for development, simulation, and on-vehicle runtime images — including GPU toolchain upgrades (CUDA/TensorRT), multi-stage runtime builds, and cross-compilation to aarch64 targets such as NVIDIA DriveOS.

- Serve as a primary code reviewer and design partner across the organization; write ADRs and design specifications for decisions that cross team boundaries.

- Participate in infrastructure on-call — mitigate user-impacting issues quickly with clear communication, then follow up with durable long-term fixes.

- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on testing, documentation, and operational excellence..

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience spanning build systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering

- Strong software development skills in Python and C++, plus at least one of Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript

- Demonstrated experience with C++ build and dependency tooling (CMake, Conan, or Bazel) and container build systems (Docker)

- Production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

- Experience designing and operating backend services, APIs, databases, and event-driven systems

- Solid understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure system design

- Outstanding communication skills and a track record of cross-team collaboration in a fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications

- Infrastructure-as-code proficiency (Pulumi, Terraform, OpenTofu, or Ansible) and GitOps delivery (Argo CD)

- Experience with workflow orchestration (Argo Workflows, Airflow) and streaming platforms (NATS JetStream, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ)

- Experience with API gateway platforms (APISIX, Kong) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry)

- Cross-compilation and embedded/automotive toolchain experience (aarch64, NVIDIA DriveOS, TensorRT)

- Experience with PKI, mTLS, HSM/KMS-backed signing, IAM, and zero-trust architectures

- Prior experience deploying LLMs and building agentic or human-in-the-loop automation

- Background in autonomous vehicle systems, robotics, or other cyber-physical systems

- Full-stack development experience (React, TypeScript)