OpenShift platform engineer deploying, automating, and securing production clusters for MOTIVE. Managing hybrid infrastructure, lifecycle operations, disaster recovery, and observability.
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Posted 18 hours ago
About the role
- Staff Backend Engineer leading Go-based platform services for Rivian-Volkswagen’s software-defined electric vehicles. Designing reliable APIs, distributed systems, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and delivery of backend services and platform capabilities from problem framing and design through launch and operation
- Design clear, secure, versionable APIs and service contracts and guide integration patterns across teams
- Build and evolve distributed, event-driven systems with attention to reliability, scalability, performance, and data consistency
- Improve Go engineering practices, code quality, testing, and maintainable service design
- Set technical direction for complex, cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders on decisions and interfaces
- Own production readiness, including observability, deployment safety, incident response, and operational improvements
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and simplify or modernize systems to improve customer experience, developer effectiveness, or system performance
- Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day collaboration
- Partner with product, design, client, security, and engineering teams to turn customer and business needs into durable technical solutions
- Help operate backend services powering customer-facing digital experiences for software-defined vehicles
Requirements
- Significant professional experience building and operating backend software in production
- Depth in Go or a comparable language and ability to contribute in Go
- Track record designing and delivering distributed services, APIs, and systems meeting reliability and performance needs
- Strong system-design skills, including clarifying ambiguous requirements, identifying edge cases, reasoning about failure modes, and explaining architectural trade-offs
- Experience with API design and service contracts
- Security-minded approach to backend development
- Experience with observability, deployment strategies, incident response, and improving service health
- Ability to lead across team boundaries by communicating clearly, building alignment, and helping others make effective technical decisions
- Collaborative leadership and mentorship style with actionable feedback and high quality standards
- Pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, delivery needs, and longer-term platform investment
- Preferred: experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or streaming systems
- Preferred: experience evolving or decomposing large or tightly coupled systems into modular services
- Preferred: experience improving performance, resilience, or operability of customer-facing platforms
- Preferred: experience working across distributed teams, time zones, or organizational boundaries
- Ability to work in Canada; application asks whether the candidate is authorized to work for any employer in Canada and whether immigration sponsorship is required
Benefits
- Annual company performance bonus program with a target annual bonus of 15%
- Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval, plan terms, and vesting requirements
- Health coverage
- Retirement savings
- Time off
- Family planning programs
- Hybrid work arrangement
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