Software Engineer, Platform, SRE

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 nearly 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 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 99.9% customer-facing uptime
• Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting capabilities of our platform, enabling us to be proactive instead of reactive
• Create deployment pipelines; take code from git to production

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience, and a demonstrated ability to work on high volume production systems
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies (Redshift, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RDS, ELB, AutoScaling, Lambda, etc…)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, etc...)
• Knowledge of Python, Bash or other scr

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