Staff Platform Engineer

Motive

Staff Engineer on Developer Productivity team at Motive, spearheading automated systems for SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products. Focusing on secure and scalable services with mentorship opportunities.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $181,000 - $226,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSGoJenkinsKubernetesPythonRubyRuby on RailsSDLCSpinnakerTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
paid time off
sick time off
short term and long term disability coverage
life insurance
401k contribution

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD infrastructureGolangRuby on RailsPythonTerraformAnsibleHelmKubernetesmicroservicesautomated testing

Soft Skills

coachingmentoringcollaborationcommunicationstrategizingevangelizingimproving developer experiencedriving adoptionteam leadershiporganizational skills

Certifications

B.S. Degree in Engineering