Senior Platform Engineer – Autonomy DevOps & APIs

Socket.dev; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 161,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev in Ann Arbor is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and evolve internal platforms and services that empower engineers across the company to automate and accelerate software development, testing, and validation for autonomous vehicles worldwide.

The role emphasizes designing platform infrastructure, code quality, APIs, CI/CD, and observability, with on‑call during business hours and mentoring responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 6 or more years of relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and construct platform infrastructure spanning build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Periodic on‑call shifts during business hours focused on incident response and operational support.
• Provide support and troubleshooting to internal customers.
• Maintain and evolve a multimodal test execution platform across hardware and simulation.
• Develop and operate shared platform services, including workflow orchestration and authentication infrastructure.
• Drive engineering quality through reference implementations and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across design, implementation, and operations.

Skills

Python

Software architecture

Infrastructure as Code

APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Debugging

Logging & metrics

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Datadog

Temporal

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Socket.dev in Ann Arbor is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and evolve internal platforms and services that empower engineers across the company to automate and accelerate software development, testing, and validation for autonomous vehicles worldwide.

The role emphasizes designing platform infrastructure, code quality, APIs, CI/CD, and observability, with on‑call during business hours and mentoring responsibilities.