Staff Platform Engineer: CI/CD & Automation

Gomotive; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Developer Productivity team to shape the tooling, automation, and release pipelines that underpin the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded products.

You will define strategy, build automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines, and mentor engineers while improving local development experience and the reliability of distributed systems using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform and related tech.

Qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience.
• B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions (Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Improving the SDLC release process.
• Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
• Streamlining developer's local environments (Ansible, local Kubernetes, etc.).
• Git flow and versioning strategy expertise.
• Experience with reproducible builds across the org.
• Advocating best engineering practices across the org.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Experience with large scale distributed release management processes.
• Containerized world with Kubernetes orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Define direction and initiatives for the team and platform.
• Strategize and build automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines.
• Promote self-service engineering technologies and approaches.
• Improve local development experience while ensuring consistency.
• Build self-healing infrastructure for fast, robust automated testing.
• Improve performance and reliability of existing systems.
• Host sessions and demos to drive adoption and collaboration.
• Coach and mentor team engineers and collaborate on designs.

Skills

Software engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

DevOps

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Education

B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Jenkins

Spinnaker

CircleCI

Prow

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Developer Productivity team to shape the tooling, automation, and release pipelines that underpin the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded products.

You will define strategy, build automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines, and mentor engineers while improving local development experience and the reliability of distributed systems using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform and related tech.