Motional

Principal Platform Engineer

Motional

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: MassachusettsNevadaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $275,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect and drive the execution of our hybrid cloud strategy. You will design the networking, security, and compute abstraction layers that allow seamless workload mobility between on-premises high-performance computing (HPC) and AWS.
  • Serve as the primary architect for our Kubernetes-based developer framework. You will identify and implement core improvements to the framework to enhance scalability, cost tracking and access control, reduce configuration complexity, and increase developer velocity.
  • Lead organization-wide initiatives to harden service reliability. You will define the standards for observability, failover strategies, and production-grade stability across all platform-layer services.
  • Prototype and deploy GenAI-focused tooling and agents to automate Platform Engineering tasks. This includes leveraging LLMs for automated incident response, predictive infrastructure scaling, and intelligent log analysis.
  • Act as the final technical authority for infrastructure decisions, ensuring all new platform services align with long-term scalability and security goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 12+ years in Software or Infrastructure Engineering, with significant experience in a Principal or Architect capacity
  • Deep, expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem (EKS, Operators (KubeRay, ArgoWorkflow, Airflow), Service Mesh, GitOps)
  • Proven track record of designing and migrating complex workloads between on-prem data centers and AWS
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation, Terraform Cloud/Spacelift/Atlantis) and advanced observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Expert in architecting AI-driven operations, leveraging LLMs and agentic workflows to automate incident response, predictive scaling, and intelligent system observability
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical roadmaps across an entire engineering organization and mentor senior technical staff.
Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k with a company match
  • Health saving accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Additional forms of compensation such as bonuses or company equity.
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCloudFormationOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaDatadogAI-driven operations
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringinfluencingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingtechnical authorityorganizational skillsadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's in Computer ScienceMaster's in Computer ScienceEngineering degreerelated field certification