Software Engineer II - Build Tools

Torc Robotics; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Torc Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Build Tools team. You will own automation for the engineering org, build robust CI/CD pipelines, and run production infrastructure to support release velocity and reliability.

Strong Python skills, containerization, and cloud architecture are required. You will work on on-call rotations and contribute to documentation, runbooks, and tutorials to help teams ship safe autonomous vehicle software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience or Master's with 0–3 years in software/DevOps.
• Production infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build technology solutions, analyze requirements and scope with the team.
• Design discussions with diagrams and documentation for clarity.
• Write and test code, and fix bugs to ensure quality.
• Collaborate to integrate work into the codebase and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to on-call rotations and analyze production incidents.
• Expand runbooks, tutorials, and API documentation.

Skills

Python

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Bazel

CMake

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Datadog

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

AWS

Bazel

CMake

Job description

About the Role

As a Software Engineer II on the Build Tools team at Torc Robotics, you will serve as the automation backbone for our entire engineering organization. In this highly impactful DevOps/Full-Stack role, you will take ground-floor ownership of the tools and infrastructure that directly drive our release velocity and system reliability. You will be responsible for running real production infrastructure, building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, and writing scalable code to support the teams shipping our safety-critical autonomous vehicle (AV) software. We are looking for an engineer with strong Python skills and deep, hands‑on experience with containerization and cloud architecture.

What You'll Do

• Build technology solutions, analyze requirements, and seek guidance from your manager and peers on scope and objectives.
• Contribute to design discussions, proposing solutions and creating diagrams and design documents for clarity.
• Write and modify code to deliver solutions, thoroughly testing via unit and integration tests and fixing bugs to ensure quality.
• Collaborate with teammates to integrate your work into the larger codebase, and give/receive feedback through code review to improve quality and support continuous learning.
• Actively participate in team meetings, sharing progress and challenges, and seek mentorship to learn best practices.
• Participate in your team's on-call rotation, troubleshooting incidents, analyzing production logs, and guiding root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Work across team boundaries to understand how your team’s deliveries contribute to Torc’s broader product offerings.
• Expand documentation coverage, including runbooks, tutorials, API documentation, and user guidance.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years of experience; or a Masters Degree plus 0-3 years of experience.
• Proven ability to tackle critical challenges with minimal supervision and strong independent judgment.
• Proficiency in AWS core services (IAM, EC2, S3) and container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS).
• Fluency in an object-oriented language (Python preferred) combined with solid scripting/templating skills (Bash, Go).
• Hands‑on background with build tools (Bazel, CMake, Maven, Gradle) and code coverage analysis (Parasoft, SonarQube, CodeQL).
• Intermediate competency with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD) and workflow tools (Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Argo Workflows).
• Solid understanding of logging and monitoring ecosystems (Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic).

Bonus Points

• Experience with JFrog Artifactory or similar artifact/package registry platforms.
• Familiarity with safety-critical or embedded software practices (e.g., MISRA C static analysis, VectorCAST or similar unit-test tooling for embedded systems).
• Exposure to C/C++ in addition to Python.

Work Location

Remote (US), or Ann Arbor, MI (Hybrid)

Hiring Range for Job Opening US Pay Range $139,000 — $166,800 USD