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Motive · 12 hours ago

Staff Platform Engineer

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. As a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will spearhead building systems and automation that support the Motive platform across various products, focusing on secure and scalable distributed services.

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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

Qualification

CI/CD infrastructureKubernetesPythonGolangAWS servicesInfrastructure as codeGit flowRuby on RailsAnsibleHelmBashTektonCircleCIJenkinsSpinnakerEmbedded systems

Required

6+ 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 microservice creation mechanisms
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

Preferred

Experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems
Experience with embedded systems builds and compiles

Benefits

Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
Paid time off
Sick time off
Short term and long term disability coverage
Life insurance
401k contribution

Company

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

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (21)
2024 (24)
2023 (12)
2022 (8)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Shoaib Makani
Co-founder and CEO
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Obaid Khan
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
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