Staff Platform Engineer - Automation & DevEx Leader

Motive; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision benefits

401k plan

Paid time off & sick time

Job summary

Motive is hiring a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in Seattle. You will drive automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT, shaping development tooling, build systems, and release pipelines.

You will lead self-service tooling, improve local development experiences, and coach engineers while scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructure using Tekton, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform and Helm. Seattle presence preferred.

Qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience in software systems.
• BS in Engineering or related field required.
• Experience building CI/CD infrastructure across multiple pipelines (Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Actions).
• Proven ability to improve SDLC release processes.
• Experience streamlining local development environments (Ansible, local Kubernetes).
• Strong Git flow and versioning practices.
• Experience enabling reproducible builds across large orgs.
• Advocate for engineering best practices and developer experience.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Experience with Kubernetes-based distributed release management.

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 enabling fast, robust automated testing.
• Improve 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.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Git workflow

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Education

B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Tekton

Prow

CircleCI

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Github Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Motive is hiring a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in Seattle. You will drive automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT, shaping development tooling, build systems, and release pipelines.

You will lead self-service tooling, improve local development experiences, and coach engineers while scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructure using Tekton, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform and Helm. Seattle presence preferred.