Staff Platform Engineer, AI

Motive•San Francisco, CA

7d•$189,000 - $225,000

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will build systems and automation that form the development, build, and delivery backbone of Motive’s SaaS, mobile, and embedded/IoT products. The role focuses on secure, highly scalable distributed services and an automated, easy-to-use, maintainable ecosystem supporting services written in Golang, Ruby on Rails, and Python, as well as Kotlin and C. The work involves development tools, automation, infrastructure, and release pipelines, along with providing guidance and mentorship to fellow 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 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.
Practice and advocate for engineering best practices throughout an organization.
Experience improving 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, such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
Experience with large-scale distributed release management processes.
Experience with containerized environments 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.