Staff Platform Engineer: Developer Productivity & Automation

Motive; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k matching

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable.

This Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team will spearhead building systems and automation that serve as the development, build, and delivery backbone of the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products.

Qualifications

• 7 - 10+ years engineering experience.
• B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions over the years ( such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions, etc.)
• Improving the SDLC release process.
• Streamlining developer's local environments (Ansible, local kubernetes, etc.)
• Git flow and versioning strategy expertise.
• Working with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across the org.
• Practicing and advocating for best engineering practices throughout the org.
• Experience improving the developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.
• Experience in Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.)
• Experience with large scale distributed release management processes.
• Experience in a containerized world with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.

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 that enables fast, robust automated testing.
• Improve the 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

Engineering leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

AWS

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git workflows

Education

B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Tekton

Prow

CircleCI

/ Jenkins

Spinnaker

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable.

This Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team will spearhead building systems and automation that serve as the development, build, and delivery backbone of the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products.