I’m developing the build tooling for C/C++ in pants (the twitter build tool) to support this work, see [0]. Twitter open sources basically all of its infrastructure, we don’t really like throwing open source over the wall, and we maintain several high quality open source libraries that don’t require you to develop specific expertise in platform building (e.g. scalding [1], one of my faves)!
[0] https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/5815 [1] https://github.com/twitter/scalding