Motional

Motional

Motional is a leading company in driverless technology and autonomous vehicles, leveraging decades of industry expertise to develop and deploy safe and reliable autonomous vehicles. With a powerful DNA combining Aptiv's automotive technology and Hyunda...

Automotive
1K-5K
Founded 2020
$20M raised

Description

  • Design and build major components of the cloud architecture, including networking, storage, and compute abstraction layers.
  • Own end-to-end technical design for platform initiatives and write code where it is most impactful.
  • Drive the evolution of the Kubernetes-based developer platform to improve scalability, cost attribution, access control, and developer ergonomics.
  • Implement platform changes that reduce configuration complexity and accelerate engineering velocity.
  • Define and roll out standards for SLIs, SLOs, observability, and failover across platform services.
  • Partner with peer teams to raise reliability across Platform Engineering.
  • Drive FinOps practices, including cost visibility, attribution, accountability, and optimization recommendations.
  • Integrate LLM-powered tooling into CI, build systems, monitoring platforms, and local development workflows.
  • Set technical direction across multiple teams and influence engineering roadmaps.
  • Mentor senior technical staff and operate as a senior individual contributor on high-impact platform problems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 9+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Significant experience in a senior individual contributor capacity.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and ecosystem, including Operators, Crossplane, ArgoWorkflow/Airflow, KubeRay, Kubecost/OpenCost, service mesh, GitOps, and other CNCF projects.
  • Proven experience designing or migrating complex workloads between on-premises data centers and major cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or Atlantis.
  • Experience with advanced observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or Datadog.
  • Expertise in architecting AI-driven operations using LLMs and agentic workflows for incident response, predictive scaling, and intelligent observability.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical roadmaps across an engineering organization and mentor senior technical staff.
  • Bonus: experience with CI/CD orchestration and build systems such as Bazel and RBE.
  • Bonus: prior experience with large-scale machine learning training pipelines.
  • Bonus: experience leading technical projects in a globally distributed team.
  • Bonus: open-source contributions to Kubernetes, observability, or infrastructure tooling ecosystems.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $172,000 to $229,000 USD.
  • Additional compensation may include a bonus and company equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance.
  • Pet insurance.

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