SeniorStaff Frontend Platform Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de lentreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations des écoles des hôpitaux des entreprises et finalement des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to own the architecture and lifecycle of the high-availability middle-layer services supporting our distributed ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of infrastructure and application delivery this role focuses on building server-side engines dynamic configuration registries and orchestration components using and TypeScript.

The ideal candidate is a systems-minded engineer who views the frontend web application as a highly critical complex consumer. You must possess deep native JavaScript/TypeScript expertise and an authentic frontend foundation to execute high-intent data visualizations manage runtime client boundaries and directly contribute to client-side platform features as our architectural roadmap evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Server-Side Platform Design: Architect scale and maintain robust server-side microservices middleware controllers and configuration registries ( that serve as the orchestration engine for downstream applications.

• Autonomous Container Operations & Diagnostics: Take direct ownership of code containerization and deployment pipelines. Write optimized Dockerfiles utilizing multi-stage builds to ensure lean production artifacts and actively navigate cluster environments using the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) to independently inspect pod states diagnose routing exceptions and isolate runtime bugs.

• Ecosystem Cache & Contract Governance: Define and govern strict type-safe data schemas between backend services and the frontend client. Design and optimize multi-tier caching architectures (such as Redis and CDNs) to mitigate system latency and maximize data throughput.

• High-Intent Data Visualization & Frontend Execution: Design and deliver highly performant framework-agnostic client components and interactive real-time data visualizations. Partner with feature teams to ensure smooth integration with the platform shell managing browser runtime isolation error boundaries and state synchronization.

• Technical Advocacy & Alignment: Partner closely with cross-functional team anchors and architects to justify technical investments reduce platform technical debt and smoothly coordinate breaking service schema migrations across multiple independent feature teams.

Qualifications & Requirements (Ordered by Priority)

• & Backend Systems Authority: Extensive hands-on experience designing deploying and maintaining high-concurrency backend services or orchestration layers natively within the / JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem.

• Infrastructure & DevOps Self-Sufficiency: Direct experience constructing localized Docker environments optimizing container build layers and troubleshooting live service behaviors inside active Kubernetes clusters.

• Core Frontend Competence: A strong foundation in modern web technologies (React Vue or Micro-Frontend host-shell concepts) with a practical understanding of client-side performance browser memory management and runtime resource limits.

• Ecosystem Extensibility & Scale: Experience engineering modular decoupled platform infrastructure that allows diverse feature teams to develop and deploy at high velocity without introducing cross-domain dependencies.

Preferred Skills (High-Value Bonus)

• Real-Time Data & Media Pipelines: Experience working with high-frequency real-time data synchronization frameworks persistent network architectures (WebSockets socket brokers) or streaming media protocols (WebRTC raw audio/video array buffering).

Target Base Salary Range:$130000 CAD - $145000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Note: Candidate must go in the office 1-2 days per week.

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Basic Requirements

• 5 years of software engineer and platform engineering experience

• AND 3 years of technical leadership experience

• AND 3 years of TypeScript and experience

• AND 2 years of Docker and Kubernetes experience

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

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