Senior DevOps Engineer

Company: Rival
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 9, 2025

Job Description:

Our Mission:Driving technology always feels old. Not by a little bit. We believe vehicles can be a thousand times smarter, safer, and more connected to the world around us, and our mission is to see it happen. In 2019, we joined forces with Honda as their first startup acquisition, and now we're expanding our vision into building the future of electric vehicles (BEV) for millions of people around the world.Why Drivemode:Join Drivemode for an exciting startup environment and a vibrant culture that combines impactful work, competitive compensation, and excellent benefits. By becoming a part of our team, you'll contribute to a crucial mission that revolutionizes the way people engage with vehicles, addressing both business needs and the world's environmental challenges. This presents an exceptional opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and drive Honda's success in the EV market.About this Role:In this role, you will design and refine tools to support software development across mobile and in-vehicle platforms, covering the entire lifecycle from development to testing and deployment. You'll work on internal CI/CD platforms for mobile applications, ensuring seamless automation, scalability, and efficiency. Additionally, you will support backend teams by addressing infrastructure need, enabling smooth integration between services and development workflows. You can experiment with emerging technologies, optimize workflows, and solve real-world problems, directly impacting the developer experience and product delivery.Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain fast, secure, and reliable CI/CD systems. Continuously improve build pipelines, infrastructure, and developer experience across mobile, backend, and in-vehicle teams.
  • Implement automation, refine infrastructure, and explore new technologies to streamline builds, deployments, and hardware-software integrations.
  • Lead efforts in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and security-ensuring systems are scalable, cost-efficient, and compliant with best practices.
  • Work closely with engineers and help build a team focused on cloud services, developer tools, and hardware test bench development.
  • Create clear documentation, participate in incident response and postmortems, and drive continuous improvements in tooling, infrastructure, and security processes.Requirements
    • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Puppet, Chef, FluxCD); and configuration management (Ansible).
    • Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), Docker, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Nomad.
    • Strong knowledge of GIT
    • Proficient with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana and Datadog.
    • Kotlin, Rust, Python, Ruby, and Shell scripting.
    • Strong problem-solving and communication abilities.NICE TO HAVE
      • iOS and Android knowledge
      • Automotive industry experience
      • Japanese language skills$175,000 - $219,000 a yearThis is the position's total compensation package including the company's bonus structure. This position also comes with full benefits. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to demonstrated skill set, years and depth of relevant experience, and some role-dependent factors. We welcome direct conversations with each candidate about compensation in all of our initial calls.EEOC StatementDrivemode is proud of a very diverse team with employees coming from 5 continents/11 countries as of today. Diversity in our workplace has played an important part in our success; we recognize each employee's unique background, knowledge, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints which are all critical in developing a product that has the greatest impacts on drivers all over the world.Drivemode provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristics that make you unique.
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