Staff Platform Engineer
Who we are
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
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What You’ll Do
- 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.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone with advanced knowledge and experience in creating and improving systems that will help the engineering org to function more efficiently. This individual will have prior experience in some or all of the following:
- 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.
Bonus Skills to have
- Experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems
- Experience with embedded systems builds and compiles
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:
United States$164,000—$205,000 USD
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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- Locations
- Kenya
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Remote World
Remote World was founded in 2023 with a simple belief: the future of work is remote, and everyone should have access to quality remote opportunities regardless of their location.
We noticed that while remote work is growing rapidly, many talented individuals around the world struggled to find legitimate, well-paying remote positions. At the same time, employers were struggling to find qualified remote talent from a global pool.
Remote World was created to solve this problem by building a comprehensive platform that not only connects job seekers with employers, but also empowers workers to develop the skills they need to succeed in remote environments.
Today, we're proud to have connected over 500 talented professionals with remote opportunities worldwide, and we're just getting started.