Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Motion•Lisbon, QC

1d•Remote

About The Position

Motion is creating the command center for creative strategists: an AI-driven analytics and intelligence platform that bridges the gap between performance marketers and creative teams, helping them uncover what's working, what's not, and ultimately ship more winning ads across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok. Today, Motion is trusted by some of the world’s top e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands and agencies (including Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, and HexClad) and has analyzed over $14 billion in media spend. When leading brands want to understand their creative performance, they turn to us. Our founders have built successful companies before, but what we’re most proud of is who chose to build again with them. 10% of our team worked with our founders at their previous company and followed them to Motion. That kind of loyalty doesn’t happen by accident, it’s built on trust, strong culture, and a shared belief in what we’re creating. We're growing fast (2.5x year-over-year and now 70+ team members), our product is sticky, and with a recent $30M Series B raise, we're just getting started. We're building the future of creative intelligence and are looking for talented people to help us get there! 🚀

Requirements

6+ years of experience as a software engineer, with meaningful time spent going deep into infrastructure.
Strong production backend experience. TypeScript / Node.js is ideal, but we care more about strong engineering judgment and the ability to learn our stack quickly
Deep, hands-on cloud experience. Azure is where we live, but AWS or GCP experience transfers if you are strong on the fundamentals.
Fluency with infrastructure-as-code. We use Pulumi but any relevant experience in Terraform or CDK is good.
Hands-on experience with containers and runtime environments. Docker is important; experience with Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, Docker Swarm, or similar orchestration systems is helpful but not required.
Experience designing reliable systems around background jobs, queues, locks, service buses, migrations, retries, and failure recovery.
Strong security instincts for application runtime environments.

Nice To Haves

You're genuinely excited about infrastructure. When something breaks, you want to understand how the system actually works, not just scale and restart it.
A strong sense of ownership: you make decisions and move quickly to fix things quickly when they go wrong.
A pragmatic mindset. You can ship the simple thing when speed matters, while flagging that which needs to evolve later.
Comfortable in a fast-moving startup where requirements come with ambiguity and the “right” way isn't handed to you.
You enjoy being a strong individual contributor and a supportive teammate. Engineering is a team sport here 💪

Responsibilities

Build and evolve the systems that provision, update, secure, and observe Motion’s agent environments.
Design abstractions around queues, locks, background tasks, and service bus mechanics so product engineers can build on reliable primitives.
Evolve our infrastructure-as-code footprint in Pulumi — defining patterns other engineers can build on.
Work with Linux systems, mounted persistent storage, OS disks, container boundaries, permissions, logs, and runtime debugging.
Participate in a small, high-ownership, cross-functional team with weekly cycles.