Staff Platform Engineer: CI/CD & DevEx Automation

Motive; United States; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Paid time off

Sick time off

Disability coverage

Life insurance

401k

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in the United States. You will lead the design and implementation of automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines, improving the developer experience across SaaS, mobile, and embedded platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive self-service tooling adoption, and collaborate on scalable infrastructure, with a focus on Kubernetes, CI/CD and reproducible builds at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience
• B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Tekton, CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Actions
• Improving the SDLC release process
• Experience with local development environments (Ansible, local Kubernetes)
• Git flow and versioning expertise
• Experience with reproducible builds across the org
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages
• Experience with AWS services and technologies
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm)

Responsibilities

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

Skills

6+ years experience

CI/CD pipelines

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

Git flow

Mentoring

SDLC improvements

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

Tekton

Github Actions

ArgoCD

CircleCI

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Terraform

Job description

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in the United States. You will lead the design and implementation of automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines, improving the developer experience across SaaS, mobile, and embedded platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive self-service tooling adoption, and collaborate on scalable infrastructure, with a focus on Kubernetes, CI/CD and reproducible builds at scale.