Software Engineer - Monitoring

Motive • Seattle, WA

10d • $164,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer on Motive’s Equipment Monitoring team, you will build backend systems that give fleets visibility into the location, utilization, and health of equipment such as trailers, reefers, construction machinery, and small assets. The team processes data from IoT devices in the field, including Asset Gateways, BLE environmental and door sensors, and Beacons. You will design and operate ingestion and stream-processing pipelines that turn sensor telemetry into real-time locations, geofence events, trips, and alerts. The role involves close collaboration with Embedded/firmware and IoT teams on device payloads and end-to-end data flows, while building cloud services at scale.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building distributed systems and event-driven or stream-processing pipelines, such as Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis.
• Experience with modern programming languages.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra.
• Experience building for cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or private clouds.
• Ownership and problem-solving mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in Ruby, Golang, Kotlin, or Java.
• Experience with IoT or sensor data, or geospatial systems such as geofencing and location.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly observable, reliable, and scalable backend services that process telemetry from hundreds of thousands of IoT devices.
• Build and operate stream-processing pipelines using Kafka and Flink for geofencing, alerting, trip construction, and asset location.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs for internal and external applications.
• Collaborate with Embedded, IoT, and cross-functional teams on device data contracts and end-to-end feature delivery.
• Reduce technical debt and improve code quality to champion engineering excellence.
• Use AI tools such as Cursor and CoPilot to improve productivity and code quality.
• Work on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and learn from other engineers to foster continuous growth.

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Paid time off and sick time off, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Life insurance, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Restricted stock units may be included in total compensation for certain roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior