Sr. Software Infrastructure/Dev Ops Engineer
About Us:
As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Responsibilities:
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Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
- Resource Optimization: Oversee the lifecycle management of cloud resources, leveraging advanced orchestration techniques to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Observability & Monitoring: Optimize our observability and telemetry platforms focused on real-time performance monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Operational Excellence: Maintain and enhance systems post-deployment by monitoring system health, optimizing availability and latency, and ensuring operational reliability.
- Scalable Automation: Implement automation solutions to scale systems sustainably while driving improvements in reliability and deployment velocity.
- Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems, handle incidents with a sustainable response process, and perform blameless postmortems to refine workflows.
- Tooling & Platforms: Develop and maintain tools, platforms, and self-service frameworks with a user-centric approach to enhance internal team productivity and operational efficiency
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Infrastructure Expertise: 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation, distributed systems, and production-grade private or public cloud systems.
- Observability & Telemetry: Proven track record in implementing and supporting observability platforms using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- Cloud & Kubernetes Knowledge: Deep understanding of Kubernetes (e.g., EKS), ArgoCD, Crossplane, and multi-cloud platforms.
- Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python or Go for building automation and operational tools.
- Linux & Networking Proficiency: Expertise in Linux systems, networking concepts, and containerization technologies.
- Problem Solving & Ownership: A systematic approach to debugging and optimizing systems with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail.
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.