22h ago

Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

$172k-$229k / year

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๐Ÿ’ผ 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.

๐ŸŽฏ 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.

๐Ÿ“‹ 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)

โœจ 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

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Unlimited PTO (implied from typical Motional benefits)
  • ๐Ÿฅ Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ 401k with company match
  • ๐Ÿฉบ Health savings accounts
  • ๐Ÿพ Pet insurance

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Phone Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Phone Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3On-site / Video Interview (multiple rounds)ยท 4 hours
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