Staff Platform Engineer

Motive

San Francisco, United States Posted November 1, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$164,000 - $236,000

Job Description

Join Motive as a Staff Platform Engineer on the Developer Productivity team. You will lead the development of systems and automation that support the Motive platform across various products. Your focus will be on creating secure and scalable distributed services using technologies like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, and more. You will also provide guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers.

  • Spearhead the effort to build systems and automation that are the development, build, and delivery backbone of the Motive platform across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products.
  • Define the direction and initiatives for the team and platform, strategize and build fully automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines.
  • Coach and mentor team engineers, collaborate on designs, and drive adoption and collaboration through hosting sessions and demos.
  • 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
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies
  • Experience with large scale distributed release management processes
  • Building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions over the years ( such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions, etc.)
  • Experience in Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages
  • Improving the SDLC release process
  • B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field
  • Git flow and versioning strategy expertise
  • Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms
  • Experience improving the developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization
  • Working with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across the org
  • Streamlining developer's local environments (Ansible, local kubernetes, etc.)
  • Practicing and advocating for best engineering practices throughout the org
  • Experience in a containerized world with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
  • Experience with embedded systems builds and compiles
  • Experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems
  • 7 - 10+ years engineering experience
Required Skills
Kubernetes Argo CD GitHub Actions collaboration Terraform Ansible Helm Amazon Web Services CI/CD CircleCI Jenkins Go Ruby Rails Python Git
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