Staff Platform Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will spearhead the effort to build systems and automation that are the development, build, and delivery backbone of the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products. With a focus on secure and highly scalable distributed services, you will leverage technology such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Tekton/TPAC, Helm, Bash, Python and whatever the future may hold to advance an automated and easy to use and maintain ecosystem to support Golang, Ruby on Rails, and Python services (as well as Kotlin and C for our Mobile and Embedded friends!). If creating direction for and implementing top-tier development tools, automation, infrastructure, and release pipelines, while providing guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers excites you, then Motive has the perfect role for you.
Requirements
- 6+ years engineering experience
- B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field
- Building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions over the years ( such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions, etc.)
- Improving the SDLC release process.
- Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
- Streamlining developer's local environments (Ansible, local kubernetes, etc.)
- Git flow and versioning strategy expertise.
- Working with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across the org.
- Practicing and advocating for best engineering practices throughout the org.
- Experience improving the developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.
- Experience in Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.)
- Experience with large scale distributed release management processes.
- Experience in a containerized world with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems
- Experience with embedded systems builds and compiles
Responsibilities
- Help define the direction and initiatives for the team and platform.
- Strategize and build fully automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines.
- Progress and evangelize self-service engineering technologies and approaches.
- Advance the local development experience while maintaining consistency.
- Build self-healing infrastructure that enables fast, robust automated testing.
- Improve the performance and reliability of existing systems.
- Host Brown Bag sessions, demos, and more to drive adoption and collaboration.
- Coach and mentor team engineers and collaborate on designs.
Benefits
- health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
- paid time off
- sick time off
- short term and long term disability coverage
- life insurance
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
