Staff Platform Engineer

Motive • Seattle, WA

5d • $181,000 - $220,000

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer on Motive’s Developer Productivity team, you will build and guide systems and automation that form the development, build, and delivery backbone for Motive’s SaaS, mobile, and embedded/IoT products. The role focuses on secure, highly scalable distributed services and an automated, easy-to-use, and maintainable ecosystem supporting services written in Go, Ruby on Rails, and Python, as well as Kotlin and C. The role also includes setting technical direction, implementing development tools, automation, infrastructure, and release pipelines, and providing guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of engineering experience.
• B.S. 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.
• Experience practicing and advocating for engineering best practices throughout an organization.
• Experience improving developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.
• Experience in 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 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.
• Promote 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 other activities to drive adoption and collaboration.
• Coach and mentor team engineers and collaborate on designs.

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Paid time off, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 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