Staff Platform Engineer

Motive

Staff Engineer on Developer Productivity team at Motive, enhancing CI/CD processes and developer experience across SaaS, Mobile, and Embedded/IoT products.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $164,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSGoKubernetesPythonRubyRuby on RailsSDLCTerraform

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
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 infrastructuremicroservice creationGolangRuby on RailsPythonAWSinfrastructure as codeTerraformAnsibleKubernetes

Soft Skills

coachingmentoringcollaborationstrategizingevangelizingimproving developer experiencedriving adoptioncommunication

Certifications

B.S. Degree in Engineering