Hiring: Staff Site Reliability Engineer- Developer Platform Company: Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:57:08 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, ArgoCD, Azure, Bash, Firmware, GCP, GitOps, Go, IAM, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Python, Service Mesh, Terraform About the job Experience: •8+ years of relevant experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles. Required Skills: •Contribute to the design and implementation of infrastructure components, from a developer platform mindset, including centralized developer portals, tooling to reduce developer cognitive overhead and Help manage our AWS footprint by identifying opportunities for better multi-region availability, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. •Participate in defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns and help maintain the library of modules used across the engineering organization. •Develop and optimize custom Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate stateful services, ensuring high availability and performance. •Assist in building robust, automated security controls and policy-as-code to ensure platform compliance. •Identify friction points across the organizations that operate on top of our infrastructure and collaboratively build intuitive tools that improve the developer experience. •Support mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical leadership. •Work closely with engineering teams to gather requirements, identify dependencies, and provide technical input on risk mitigation. Qualifications: •Proficiency with Infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform. Experience designing reusable modules and managing state at scale. •Comprehensive expertise in Kubernetes internals, networking, storage and service mesh architectures. •Proven track record implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux in production environments. •In-depth knowledge of automation and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, GoLang). •Strong experience with one of the major Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including IAM, compute, networking and storage layers. •Demonstrated capacity to clearly communicate technical concepts to peers and stakeholders. •Comfortable working in a collaborative environment where architectural decisions are discussed and debated. •Willingness to mentor peers and share technical knowledge. Compensation: •$186,000 - $255,750 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!