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.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with our internal developer teams, infrastructure, and CICD teams to develop tooling and support existing systems aimed at accelerating software delivery to our internal testing organizations. This dynamic position will involve a mix of software development, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

• Escalate blockers for junior team members and ensure swift resolution of issues.
• Take charge of project intake and analysis, including breaking down tasks and unblocking issues within the assigned workflow.
• Support alerting escalation for junior team members, particularly in a Follow the Sun support model.
• Oversee the daily handoff of tasks through a well-defined handoff process.
• Troubleshoot CICD pipelines, including GitLab Runner support and ArgoCD, ensuring smooth pipeline operations.
• Utilize Allure for project documentation and test reporting.
• Manage and maintain the Buildbarn build system.
• Implement and maintain Lighthouse performance monitoring.
• Work with TurboRepo for efficient monorepo management.
• Use JFrog Artifactory for binary repository management.
• Support AWS infrastructure, focusing on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Manage AWS services including S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Develop and maintain GitLab pipelines and perform system administration tasks.

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Possess 6+ years of industry experience in relevant roles.
• Possess 5 years of Kubernetes experience.
• Have 5 years of experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrate extensive AWS experience, focused on supporting EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), with working knowledge of CloudWatch, S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.
• Possess prior experience mentoring and guiding junior talent.
• Have solid experience with GitLab Pipeline development and system administration tasks.
• Demonstrate working knowledge with Datadog and the Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack.
• Perform full-stack development work, with proficiency in Postgres, TypeScript, React, GoLang, and NodeJS.
• Utilize Docker for containerization.
• Apply strong debugging and diagnostic skills.
• AWS and CKA certifications are a big plus.

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.