Staff Platform Engineer - Developer Productivity & CI/CD

Motive; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in San Francisco, focused on building the development, build, and delivery backbone across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded products. You will lead automation, self-service tooling, and scalable infrastructure to support Golang, Ruby on Rails, and Python services.

You will define strategy for pipelines, automate bootstrapping, and mentor engineers, while advancing local development experiences and ensuring robust testing and

Qualifications

• 6+ years engineering experience.
• Experience building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions (Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions).
• 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 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

• Define direction and initiatives for the team and platform.
• 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

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Python

CI/CD

Git workflow

Cloud tooling

Education

B.S. Degree in Engineering

Tools

Tekton

Prow

CircleCI

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Github Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kubernetes

AWS

Gerrit

Android OS build systems

Job description

Motive is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team in San Francisco, focused on building the development, build, and delivery backbone across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded products. You will lead automation, self-service tooling, and scalable infrastructure to support Golang, Ruby on Rails, and Python services.

You will define strategy for pipelines, automate bootstrapping, and mentor engineers, while advancing local development experiences and ensuring robust testing and