Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Nimble Robotics•San Francisco, CA

50d•$180,000 - $250,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Robotics organization, focused on building the backend and robotics platform software that powers our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and operational tooling. This role is primarily software and systems engineering working closely with robotics team.

Requirements

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong self learning and improvement mindset.
Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++.
Strong fundamentals in backend services, distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
Demonstrated experience designing scalable systems and leading complex technical projects.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience observability stack like OpenTelemetry.
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production.
Experience building internal developer platforms, tooling, or workflow systems.
Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with robotics, ML, and product teams to define requirements and turn them into well-architected software systems.
Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that support production workflows and customer-facing features.
Own integrations between our multi-agent systems, cloud infrastructures, internal tooling, and robot-facing interfaces.
Build orchestration and state management services that coordinate long-running operational processes.
Improve reliability and scalability through robust testing, observability, incident response, and performance tuning.
Drive software engineering best practices across the team by producing high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code and raising the bar in reviews.
Mentor other engineers and contribute to improving team processes and technical standards.
Participate in and often lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
Join an on-call rotation and help diagnose and resolve production issues.