Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Free resume; Berlin; Híbrido; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity (RSUs)

Bonus program

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Descripción de la vacante

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Parallax Cloud team in a cloud‑centric platform role. You will build and operate cloud services and APIs that abstract messaging, routing, and authorization for product teams.

This hands‑on role emphasizes distributed systems, tracing, and production readiness. The role requires leadership in deploying services with Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, and IaC, plus strong experience with gRPC, Protobuf, and

Formación

• Minimum 5 years in distributed systems or high‑scale backend services.
• Strong programming skills in Go; willingness to work with Java/TypeScript.
• Production experience with cloud services, observability, and troubleshooting.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and operate cloud services and gRPC/Protobuf APIs for vehicle state and commands.
• Operate and tune NATS messaging; perform capacity planning and troubleshooting.
• Own services end to end using Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Diagnose production behavior with metrics, traces, and logs.
• Develop end‑to‑end, integration, and load tests to prevent regressions.

Conocimientos

Go

Java

TypeScript

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

NATS

Kafka

MQTT

HTTP/2

TCP

Herramientas

GitOps/Argo CD

Argo CD

NATS

Kafka

MQTT

gRPC

Protobuf

HTTP/2

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Job Description

About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

The Parallax Cloud team builds the communication fabric that lets vehicles, mobile apps, and cloud services exchange live state and commands securely and reliably.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build and operate services and APIs that hide messaging, routing, and authorization complexity from product teams. This is hands‑on platform work: you will solve distributed‑systems problems, trace failures across the stack, and carry changes from design through production.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate cloud services and gRPC/Protobuf APIs that let product teams read vehicle state, subscribe to changes, and send commands.

Operate and tune NATS, our high‑performance messaging system, including configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance validation, and capacity planning.

Own services end to end, from implementation through deployment and production operation, using Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, and infrastructure as code.

Diagnose production behavior using metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and alerts.

Design, operate, and tune service networking, load balancers, and L4/L7 traffic routing.

Develop and run end‑to‑end, integration, and load tests to catch functional and performance regressions before production.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, high‑scale backend services, or streaming and messaging platforms.

Strong proficiency in at least one general‑purpose programming language and willingness to work primarily in Go, with occasional work in Java and TypeScript client SDKs.

Practical experience building and operating production services, including observability and troubleshooting.

Solid foundations in API design, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems with working knowledge of Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands‑on experience with high‑throughput messaging systems such as NATS, Kafka, or MQTT.

Experience with Kubernetes and owning service deployments; familiarity with GitOps/Argo CD and infrastructure as code.

Strong knowledge of HTTP/2, TCP, L4/L7 load balancing along with experience operating gRPC services in production is a major plus.

Familiarity with mTLS, certificates, service identity, secure transport and authentication patterns.

Track record of maintaining or making contributions to established open‑source projects.

Why this role

Parallax Cloud engineers collaborate closely with both product and cloud platform teams, creating a unique opportunity to shape how connected features are designed and how the underlying platform evolves. The role offers broad visibility across the system and meaningful influence on decisions on both sides. You will have the autonomy to investigate problems and carry improvements from design through rollout.

Total Rewards

We build the exceptional — and we believe the people doing that work should be rewarded accordingly. In addition to a competitive base salary, full‑time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program.

Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements.

In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full‑time employees — including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs. Offerings vary by country. Learn more about our global benefit programs.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) record keeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable