Software Engineer, Platform, SRE
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 29 October 2026.
About the role
Motive's standard text
Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Platform team, your role will be crucial in helping us design, scale, and manage our growing AWS-backed infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to scaling our architecture and building a highly available system with an enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who have production experience with AWS-based platforms, expertise in automating distributed systems, scaling a fast-growing platform, maintaining high availability, and a forward-thinking mindset ready to take on tomorrow's challenges.
What You’ll Do:
- Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of our infrastructure using Configuration As Code and Configuration Management
- Work with other engineering and product teams to design and build the infrastructure required to deliver new features to customers
- Identify and remove bottlenecks from systems in production
- Ensure 99.9% customer-facing uptime
- Continuously improve the monitoring and alerting capabilities of our platform, enabling us to be proactive instead of reactive
- Create deployment pipelines; take code from git to production
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience, and a demonstrated ability to work on high volume production systems
- Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies (Redshift, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RDS, ELB, AutoScaling, Lambda, etc…)
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, etc...)
- Knowledge of Python, Bash or other scr
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All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.
What this role asks for
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · Python · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
70% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Motive's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Motive's other open jobs.
The team: Software Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 14 open in Software Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in November: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (9 of 14), Embedded Systems (9 of 14), Golang (9 of 14), Ruby (9 of 14), Kotlin (8 of 14), CI/CD (6 of 14), Terraform (6 of 14)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Platform Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer - Monitoring posted Oct 30
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Sep 18
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Sep 11
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Aug 27
- Technical Program Manager, Platform Services posted Aug 27
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend posted Aug 18
- Director, Developer Platform & Experience posted Aug 13
- Director, Developer Platform & Experience posted Aug 13
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Jul 31
- Staff Platform Engineer, AI posted Apr 13
- Staff Platform Engineer, AI posted Jan 23
- Software Engineer - Android posted Nov 25
From the team and dates on Motive's own job board.
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