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For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.\nMotive serves nearly 100,000 customers - from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses - across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.\nVisit gomotive.com to learn more.\nAbout the Role\nAs 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. With a focus on secure and highly scalable distributed services, you will leverage technology such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Tekton/TPAC, Helm, Bash, Python and whatever the future may hold to advance an automated and easy to use and maintain ecosystem to support Golang, Ruby on Rails, and Python services (as well as Kotlin and C for our Mobile and Embedded friends!). 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This individual will have prior experience in some or all of the following:\n7 - 10+ years engineering experience\nB.S. Degree in Engineering or related field\nBuilding CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions over the years ( such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Github Actions, etc.)\nImproving the SDLC release process.\nStreamlining microservice creation mechanisms.\nStreamlining developer's local environments (Ansible, local kubernetes, etc.)\nGit flow and versioning strategy expertise.\nWorking with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across the org.\nPracticing and advocating for best engineering practices throughout the org.\nExperience improving the developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.\nExperience in Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.\nWorking knowledge of AWS services and technologies.\nExperience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.)\nExperience with large scale distributed release management processes.\nExperience in a containerized world with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.\nBonus Skills to have\nExperience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems\nExperience with embedded systems builds and compiles\nCreating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. \n Pay Transparency\nYour compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visitingMotive Perks & Benefits.\nThe compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:\nUnited States\n$181,000—$220,000 USD\nCreating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. \nPlease review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.\nUK Candidate Privacy Notice here.\nThe applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. \nRegarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. 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