Motive
Site Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves designing, scaling, and managing a Kubernetes and AWS-backed infrastructure, with a focus on automating provisioning and ensuring high availability. Candidates should have at least 3 years of SRE/DevOps experience with production systems, hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS services, and experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools. The position emphasizes continuous improvement of monitoring and alerting capabilities to maintain 99.99% uptime. The environment values diversity, inclusion, and requires authorized access to certain technologies.
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Job Description
Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. 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.
Motive serves more than 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.
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About the Role:
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team, your role will be crucial in helping us design, scale, and manage our growing Kubernetes / AWS-backed infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to scaling our architecture and building a highly available system with an enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who have production experience with AWS-based platforms, expertise in automating distributed systems, scaling a fast-growing platform, maintaining high availability, and a forward-thinking mindset ready to take on tomorrow's challenges.
What You'll Do:
- Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of our infrastructure using Configuration As Code and Configuration Management
- Work with other engineering and product teams to design and build the infrastructure required to deliver new features to customers
- Identify and remove bottlenecks from systems in production
- Ensure 99.99% customer-facing uptime
- Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting capabilities of our platform, enabling us to be proactive instead of reactive
What We're Looking For:
- 3+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience, and a demonstrated ability working on high volume production systems
- Hands on experience on Kubernetes based environments
- Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies (Redshift, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RDS, ELB, AutoScaling, Lambda, etc)
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Nix, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, etc...)
- Knowledge of Python, Ruby, or Go, and an understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL a plus)
Creating 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.
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The 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.
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Motive provides an integrated platform to help improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations for the physical economy.
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