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    Staff Platform Engineer

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    Salary

    $189k–$189k

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    Location

    Work from anywhere

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    Time zone

    Not specified on the listing

    Posted

    Oct 16, 2026

    Verified Oct 16, 2026 by Jeff

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    About the role

    Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses, across a wide range of industries.

    As a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will 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.

    What you'll do

    • 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.

    What they're looking for

    • Advanced knowledge and experience in creating and improving systems that help the engineering org function more efficiently; prior experience in some or all of the following.
    • 7 - 10+ years engineering experience.
    • B.S. Degree in Engineering or related field.
    • Building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions, such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions, etc.
    • Improving the SDLC release process.
    • Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
    • Streamlining developers' 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.

    Nice to have

    • Experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems.
    • Experience with embedded systems builds and compiles.

    Benefits, as listed

    Health care benefitsPharmacy care benefitsOptical care benefitsDental care benefitsPaid time offSick time offShort term disability coverageLong term disability coverageLife insurance401k contribution

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