Software Engineer, Data Platform

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Role Summary:

The Vehicle Software Data Platform team is seeking a skilled individual to join our team and work on the infrastructure that hosts a cutting-edge Vehicle Cloud interface built on AWS. The main objective is to create a highly advanced distributed messaging system that caters to IoT use cases related to Electric Vehicles/Chargers and Cloud Use. We are utilizing various technologies like AWS S3 and Kafka and streaming technologies like Apache Flink on Kubernetes to build notification systems, stream analytics, and anomaly detection systems. This person will play a crucial role in developing a platform to store petabytes of vehicle data from multiple in-vehicle ECUs. Additionally, they will help design and construct the next-generation architecture for streaming video, audio, and telematics data between vehicles and mobiles.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop Rivian bidirectional communication interface between Cloud and Vehicle.
  • Primary responsibilities include designing, coding, and troubleshooting technical issues as a Data Engineer.
  • Willing to be on-call rotation as needed to support Staging and Production systems.
  • Work with DevOps engineers to design systems or resolve issues.
  • Contribute to planning, prioritizing, and leading as needed in different capacities.
  • Must be willing to take up new challenges and flexible in adapting to changing requirements, design needs, and deployment challenges.
  • Must be flexible to work with multiple teams and collaborate within and across teams in dynamic work environments.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS or any STEM discipline.
  • Knowledge of Cloud fundamentals (preferably in AWS) and distributed systems.
  • Robust system and component-level design and troubleshooting skills, including memory CPU profiling on cloud-based services.
  • Strong coding skills in one or more programming languages – Golang, Python, Rust, Java. Must include knowledge of how-to unit tests and system tests.
  • Good foundation on Unix and bash. Some basic knowledge of Cloud networking is preferred.
  • Preferred good foundations on Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, and Release Management.
  • Preferred understanding of Cloud resource provisioning using CDK, Cloud Formation, or Terraform – not a requisite.
Company Statements:

Equal Opportunity

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