Staff Platform Engineer

Motive • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

As a Staff Engineer on Motive’s Developer Productivity team, this role leads efforts to build systems and automation that underpin development, build, and delivery across the company’s SaaS, mobile, and embedded/IoT products. The position focuses on secure, highly scalable distributed services and an automated, easy-to-use, maintainable ecosystem supporting services in Go, Ruby on Rails, and Python, as well as Kotlin and C for mobile and embedded products. The engineer helps set technical direction, implements development tools, automation, infrastructure, and release pipelines, and provides guidance and mentorship to other engineers.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Experience building CI/CD infrastructure using multiple pipeline solutions, such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience improving the software development life cycle (SDLC) release process.
• Experience streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
• Experience streamlining developers’ local environments, such as with Ansible or local Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Git flow and versioning strategy.
• Experience with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across an organization.
• Experience practicing and advocating for engineering best practices across an organization.
• Experience improving developer experience while working with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.
• Experience with Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management, such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Experience with large-scale distributed release management processes.
• Experience with containers and 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.
• Advance and promote self-service engineering technologies and approaches.
• Improve 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 other activities 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.
• 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