Sr. Platform Engineer, Commercial Technology

About Rivian 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. Role Summary Are you a humble, empathetic, and service-minded senior-level Platform Engineer with working experience in Git Lab CI, ArgoCD, Helm, and Backstage? We want you to join our customer-success-focused, like-minded team. In this role, you will help maintain and improve our internal developer platform (IDP) as we streamline our software development lifecycle.

Your knowledge of Git Lab CI, ArgoCD, Helm, container images, Kubernetes, and Backstage, along with your passion for customer success, will be instrumental in serving our Digital Technology engineering teams and enabling their work to flow smoothly from local to production as they rapidly iterate on products. This role will report to one of our Sr. Managers and be located in Vancouver, BC Responsibilities CI/CD Pipeline Development:
Design and build robust, scalable CI/CD pipelines for various projects using Git Lab CI. Integrate Git Lab CI with version control (Git), testing frameworks, and deployment platforms. Optimize pipeline performance to enable faster, more reliable builds and deployments. Leverage containerization (Docker) to package and deploy applications consistently across environments. Git Ops:
Contribute to our application deployment system using Argo CD for declarative, Git Ops-based deployments. Ensure synchronization between Git repositories and Kubernetes clusters. Monitor and manage application rollouts and rollbacks with Argo Rollouts and Workflows. Git Lab Administration:
Manage and maintain the Git Lab instance, including user management, access control, and system configuration. Monitor Git Lab pipeline performance and troubleshoot issues. Implement and enforce SDLC best practices using Git Lab pipelines. Production Readiness Process:
Help automate the production readiness process to ensure applications meet quality, observability, compliance, security, alerting, and reliability standards before deployment. Augment our Internal Development Portal—Backstage:
Contribute to and maintain “golden path” components to standardize app and service scaffolding. Contribute to integrating our platform into the portal to improve self-service and discovery. Collaboration and Support:
Collaborate with development teams to identify and address pipeline needs and bottlenecks. Provide technical support to development teams on CI/CD best practices, Git Lab CI usage, and ArgoCD deployments. Stay up-to-date on CI/CD industry trends and new tools, particularly in the Git Lab, Argo CD, and Backstage ecosystems. Qualifications 3–5 years working in Dev Ops or Platform Engineering, on a team supporting a larger engineering organization, with a focus on enabling the developer experience.

2-3 years building software solutions from scratch or through integrations, using languages/frameworks such as Go, Typescript, React. Strong CI/CD Expertise:
Proven experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically using Git Lab CI. Git Lab Administration:
Familiarity with managing and administering Git Lab. Git Ops

Experience:

Hands-on experience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts. Argo Workflows and Kargo experience are pluses. Kubernetes

Experience:

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and application deployment. Application Development

Experience:

Hands-on experience contributing to the development of APIs and UIs—you don’t have to be an expert. The kit we use—you should be comfortable using many of our tools:
Git Lab CI, Crossplane, k8s, Argo CD, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Backstage, Helm, Terraform, AWS. Pay Disclosure The salary range for this role is $108,200 - $135,300 for British Columbia based…