Staff Platform Engineer - Developer Experience & Automation

Gomotive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

Disability insurance

401k

Job summary

Motive invites a Staff Engineer to join the Developer Productivity team to build scalable automation and release pipelines across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products. You will lead initiatives to improve tooling, automate bootstrapping, and advance a robust, self-service engineering culture.

You will mentor engineers, optimize testing, and enhance local development experiences using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform, Helm, and related technologies to support Golang, Ruby on

Qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience.
• B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Experience building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions (Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions).
• Improving the SDLC release process.
• Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
• Working with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes).

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 the local development experience while maintaining consistency.
• Build self-healing infrastructure for fast, robust automated testing.
• Improve performance and reliability of existing systems.
• Host Brown Bag sessions, demos, and more to drive adoption.
• Coach and mentor engineers and collaborate on designs.

Skills

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

AWS

Education

B.S. Degree in Engineering

Tools

Tekton

Prow

CircleCI

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Github Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Motive invites a Staff Engineer to join the Developer Productivity team to build scalable automation and release pipelines across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products. You will lead initiatives to improve tooling, automate bootstrapping, and advance a robust, self-service engineering culture.

You will mentor engineers, optimize testing, and enhance local development experiences using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Terraform, Helm, and related technologies to support Golang, Ruby on