Senior C++ Software Engineer

About This Role

Join Bentley’s Platform organization as a Senior C++ Software Engineer to evolve local and cloud-based workflows, enhancing the performance, scalability, and reliability of data creation, editing, and synchronization across Bentley’s product ecosystem. This role involves building high-performance C++ components and optimizing storage engine internals to advance the vision for seamless interoperability and connected digital twins.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance C++ components and maintain well-structured, versioned libraries with clear APIs and documentation
• Ensure the correctness, determinism, and performance of SQLite-backed iModels across local and CloudSQLite workflows
• Profile and optimize CPU, memory, I/O, and multithreading behavior to deliver measurable performance gains
• Contribute to low-level storage engine internals—file formats, indexing, transactions, queries—and surface them through clean APIs
• Debug and validate software across virtualized and containerized environments
• Enhance observability with metrics, tracing, and structured logs; define and monitor SLIs in CI/CD
• Expand automated testing and benchmarking; enforce performance gates and API compatibility
• Consistently deliver high-quality features, lead designs for medium-sized efforts, and improve shared infrastructure across teams
• Work in a collaborative team environment using GitHub for development, reviews, and CI management
• Partner with platform, security, and product teams through design reviews and architectural discussions

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20)
• Experience shipping production-grade systems
• Demonstrated skill in optimizing performance-critical code paths (CPU, memory, I/O, synchronization)
• Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and diagnosing race conditions or deadlocks
• Experience building shared libraries, SDKs, or platform components with stable, well-designed APIs
• Strong testing discipline, including unit, integration, and performance tests with automated benchmarks
• Experience working with backend services, APIs, and data workflows across local and cloud environments
• Familiarity with observability methods (metrics, tracing, structured logs)
• Strong problem-solving, technical ownership, and effective cross-team communication skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed systems concepts (retries, idempotency, backpressure)
• Knowledge of SQL/SQLite-like storage engines, indexing, and transactional behavior
• Familiarity with sanitizers, fuzzing, and stress testing
• Cross-platform development experience (Windows/Linux; MSVC/Clang/GCC)
• Experience with Docker or VM-based development environments
• Understanding of API versioning, compatibility, and deprecation best practices
• Practical TypeScript/JavaScript experience

Skills

* Required skills