Senior Robotics Platform Engineer - Backend & Orchestration

Nimble; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Robotics Platform, focusing on backend and robotics software powering our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and tooling, collaborating with robotics teams.

Ideal candidates have strong CS fundamentals, proficiency in Rust/Python/C++, and a track record leading complex projects. This role involves on-call rotation, design reviews, and contributing to high-impact architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, or C++.
• Strong fundamentals in backend services, distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
• Experience designing scalable systems and leading complex technical projects.

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.

Skills

Rust

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Backend services

APIs design

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS

Tools

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Nimble is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Robotics Platform, focusing on backend and robotics software powering our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and tooling, collaborating with robotics teams.

Ideal candidates have strong CS fundamentals, proficiency in Rust/Python/C++, and a track record leading complex projects. This role involves on-call rotation, design reviews, and contributing to high-impact architectural decisions.