Bot Auto
Senior Software Engineer, Core Platforms
Houston, TX +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Houston, TX
Houston, Texas, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience spanning build systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and operate the build, release, infrastructure, platform, and cloud-to-vehicle services that deliver Bot Auto’s autonomous driving software to its truck fleet.
What you'll do
- Build and operate event-driven backend, API, identity, security, and edge services connecting cloud platforms to vehicles.
- Own the C++ build and packaging toolchain, CI/CD and container image pipelines, Kubernetes platform, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and respond to infrastructure on-call incidents.
What they ask for
- 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 Python and C++ skills, plus at least one of Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript; experience with C++ build tools and Docker.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider; experience with backend services, APIs, databases, event-driven systems, and secure system design.
Nice to have
- Infrastructure-as-code or GitOps experience; workflow orchestration, streaming, API gateway, or observability platform experience.
- Cross-compilation, embedded/automotive, PKI/mTLS, LLM/agentic automation, autonomous vehicle, robotics, or full-stack experience.
Tools
Python, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, CMake, Conan, Bazel
AI focus
Preferred experience deploying LLMs and building agentic or human-in-the-loop automation.
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