Role Summary

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Streaming Team is seeking a passionate and skilled Senior Software Engineer to create the electric architecture and software for next-generation Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). This new R | V Tech Employee will thrive in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency, robust, scalable, and reliable distributed systems. This position will play a pivotal role in shaping the backbone of R | V Tech's technology infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and tackling complex technical challenges. This role requires participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including occasional weekends, late nights, and holidays, to resolve critical production issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy distributed systems and applications with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Work with event-driven architectures, leveraging technologies like Kafka and Redis to build efficient and fault-tolerant systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand system requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code in Go (GoLang) Programming, ensuring robust test coverage.
• Implement, monitor, and debug applications, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Manage and optimize message brokers and implement streaming and queuing solutions as required.
• Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and production issues.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, addressing production issues during off-hours, weekends, and holidays as necessary.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and tools.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Participating in an on-call rotation to ensure system reliability and uptime.

Qualifications

Required:

• Office Location Requirement: Ability to work from R | V Tech's Yaletown Office at least three days per week is required for this role.
• Work From Home: Ability to work from home two days a week is supported as well.
• On-Call: Participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including occasional weekends, late nights, and holidays, to resolve critical production issues is also required.
• Education: At least a Bachelor's Degree is required for this role.
• Experience: At least 3 years of experience is also needed for this role.
• Skills:
  
  • Strong foundation in Software Engineering Principles and Distributed Systems Design.
  • Proficiency in Go (GoLang) Programming, with demonstrated experience building production-grade applications.
  • Experience with Cloud Platforms and familiarity with cloud-native patterns.
  • Expertise in event-driven architecture and working with message brokers such as Kafka.
  • Proficient with Redisfor caching, session storage, or distributed data structures.
  • Solid understanding of monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana Labs, or Amazon CloudWatchand debugging production systems.
  • Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
  • Strong knowledge of Git for version control and collaboration.

Preferred:

• Education: Master's Degree or PhD is strongly preferred but not required.
• Skills:
  
  • AWS Cloud Platformexperience is highly preferred.
  • Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD.
  • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools such as Dockerand Kubernetes.

Total Rewards

Total compensation packages for full-time positions include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity.

In addition, our benefits package has been designed to support the health and wellness of our employees. For more information on RV Tech's comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, check out our Global Benefits Site.

External candidates can apply for this role through the RV Tech Careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers). If you are a current employee, please apply through our internal job board.