Staff Software Engineer, Software Infrastructure

About Rivian

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

Role Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with our internal developer teams, infrastructure, and CICD teams to develop tooling and support existing systems aimed at accelerating software delivery to our internal testing organizations. This dynamic position will involve a mix of software development, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Escalate blockers for junior team members and ensure swift resolution of issues.
• Take charge of project intake and analysis, including breaking down tasks and unblocking issues within the assigned workflow.
• Support alerting escalation for junior team members, particularly in a Follow the Sun support model.
• Oversee the daily handoff of tasks through a well-defined handoff process.
• Troubleshoot CICD pipelines, including GitLab Runner support and ArgoCD, ensuring smooth pipeline operations.
• Utilize Allure for project documentation and test reporting.
• Manage and maintain the Buildbarn build system.
• Implement and maintain Lighthouse performance monitoring.
• Work with TurboRepo for efficient monorepo management.
• Use JFrog Artifactory for binary repository management.
• Support AWS infrastructure, focusing on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Manage AWS services including S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Develop and maintain GitLab pipelines and perform system administration tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Possess 6+ years of industry experience in relevant roles.
• Possess 5 years of Kubernetes experience.
• Have 5 years of experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrate extensive AWS experience, focused on supporting EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), with working knowledge of CloudWatch, S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Possess prior experience mentoring and guiding junior talent.
• Have solid experience with GitLab Pipeline development and system administration tasks.
• Demonstrate working knowledge with Datadog and the Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack.
• Perform full-stack development work, with proficiency in Postgres, TypeScript, React, GoLang, and NodeJS.
• Utilize Docker for containerization.
• Apply strong debugging and diagnostic skills.
• AWS and CKA certifications are a big plus.