22h ago
Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
$172k-$229k / year
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๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ About This Role
You'll be a hands-on technical leader driving evolution of global cloud and hybrid infrastructure and Kubernetes-based developer platform. You'll tackle hardest platform problems directly, designing systems and setting technical direction across multiple teams. Your work transforms our R&D environment into a hardened, cost-efficient, commercial backbone for rapid AV deployment.
๐ฏ What You'll Do
- Design and build major cloud architecture components (networking, storage, compute).
- Drive technical evolution of Kubernetes-based developer platform.
- Define and implement standards for SLIs, SLOs, observability, and failover.
- Design AI-native developer experiences integrating LLM tooling into CI and workflows.
๐ Requirements
- 9 years in Software or Infrastructure Engineering with senior IC capacity
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem (Operators, Crossplane, Argo, etc.)
- Proven track record designing or migrating workloads between on-prem data centers and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
โจ Nice to Have
- Expertise in CI/CD orchestration and build systems (Bazel, RBE)
- Prior experience with large-scale ML training pipelines
- Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, observability, or infrastructure tooling ecosystems
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐๏ธ Unlimited PTO (implied from typical Motional benefits)
- ๐ฅ Medical, dental, vision insurance
- ๐ฐ 401k with company match
- ๐ฉบ Health savings accounts
- ๐พ Pet insurance
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Phone Screenยท 30 min
- 2Technical Phone Interviewยท 60 min
- 3On-site / Video Interview (multiple rounds)ยท 4 hours
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