Senior Software Engineer, Core Platforms

Responsibilities

• Design and support company-wide event-driven architecture, messaging and streaming platforms, consumer provisioning, and shared IDL/schema services.
• Develop and operate secure API gateways and backend services for artifact management, fleet data, operations, object storage, durable state, and distributed locking.
• Build vehicle-edge services connecting trucks to cloud platforms, including event forwarding, credential and certificate management, and fleet-wide deployment.
• Implement identity, authorization, RBAC, JWT issuance and verification, service principals, SSO integration, PKI, mTLS, secrets management, and key rotation.
• Own the C++ build, dependency-resolution, packaging, container-image, GPU toolchain, and cross-compilation pipelines for autonomy software.
• Operate Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, cloud and on-prem platforms, and infrastructure on-call while driving durable fixes for incidents.
• Review code, write cross-team architecture decision records and design specifications, mentor engineers, and improve testing, documentation, observability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience with C++ build and dependency tooling such as CMake, Conan, or Bazel, and container build systems such as 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.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure system design.
• Preferred experience with Pulumi, Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Airflow, NATS JetStream, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, APISIX, Kong, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, aarch64, NVIDIA DriveOS, TensorRT, PKI, mTLS, HSM/KMS-backed signing, IAM, zero-trust architectures, LLM deployment, agentic automation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or React and TypeScript.
• Strong communication, cross-team collaboration, technical review, design, mentoring, and operational leadership skills.