Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, Autonomy

Role Summary

Rivian's Autonomy org needs a Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure to join the Cloud Infra team in the AI Platform organization.  This role brings deep cloud and data engineering expertise to Rivian's ADAS team, working directly with technical and business stakeholders to build, test, and release complex, mission-critical infrastructure services on AWS, GCP or Multi Cloud.

This candidate needs to have a very good understanding of the Cloud Data Platform and Data/ML Ops processes that helps to build, test, and release complex mission critical infrastructure services for Rivian's Autonomy team on multi cloud. In this role You'll work with the AI Platform, Perception, Planning, Simulation, and Vehicle Integration, Product Management, and other technology partners to leverage best practices and reference architectures highlighting AWS/Multi Cloud Platforms and Data/Dev/ML Ops practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, build, test and release complex mission-critical infrastructure services for Rivian's Autonomy team on cloud and/or on-prem.
• Setup fault tolerant multi-region environments for data operations and data applications.
• Own CI/CD pipeline for apps and data projects.
• Define on-call strategy and participate in on-call rotations.
• Make developers' lives smooth via automated workflows.
• Build and optimize highly reliable, scalable, and distributed infra using microservice architecture.
• Collaborate with the security & privacy team to perform audits and mitigate any findings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Autonomy teams for development and integrations.
• Cost optimization in AWS or GCP across multiple accounts and services.

Qualifications

• 5+ Yrs. of software engineering or in ML/Dev/Data Ops role.
• 5+ Yrs. Experience authoring, scaling, and managing production infrastructure.
• 5+ Yrs. Experience with Kubernetes, cloud CI/CD tools, and core cloud services across compute, storage, networking, identity, and secrets management (e.g., AWS EKS/ECS/S3/Lambda/RDS/Systems Manager/Secrets Manager/CloudTrail, Azure AKS/Blob Storage/Functions, or GCP GKE/Cloud Storage/Cloud Functions).
• 5+ Yrs. Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• 5+ Yrs. Experience monitoring applications across cloud environments using Datadog, Prometheus, or native tools such as AWS CloudWatch, or Google Cloud Operations.
• 5+ Yrs. Experience debugging production systems and performing RCA on incidents.
• 3+ Yrs. Hands-on with Python, Go, or Java, plus Git-based tooling (GitLab, GitHub, or similar) for automation.
• 2+ Yrs. of CI/CD and/or GitOps patterns (using GitLab, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar).
• 2+ Yrs. Microservice-oriented architectures (using Kubernetes, container orchestration on any major cloud, or Docker Swarm).
• 2+ Yrs. Knowledge of Agile development of accessible software tools.
• Linux internals, networking, and distributed computing are a plus.
• AWS or GCP certification, or a Cloud Native (CNCF) certification, is a plus.

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $206,500-$258,100 for San Francisco Bay Area based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.   We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.