Software Engineer Data Platform

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 100000 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.

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About the Role:

As a Software Engineer - Data Platform you will be involved and responsible for full ownership and driving key data platform initiatives and life cycle of the data management including data ingestion data processing data storage querying system cost reduction efforts towards delivering product features to internal and external Motive customers.

We are looking for strong engineers to grow our Data Platform team. This team is responsible for driving the Motives Data Platform vision. The team works in three areas: build scalable systems and services for data ingestion access processing and query to enable data driven product features collaborate and work closely with the various stakeholders and our backend product teams to improve and add features to the platform.

What Youll Do:

• Design and develop scalable distributed systems and frameworks for data management
• Focus on addressing fault-tolerance and high availability issues and work on scaling ingestion pipelines improving and adding features to ETL framework while maintaining SLAs on performance reliability and system availability.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to identify and deliver cross-functional features
• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle from design to implementation and delivery.

What Were Looking For:

• 3 years Hands-on software engineering experience
• Backend programming skills including multi-threading concurrency etc and proficient in one or more of Python
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures algorithms and distributed systems
• Experience in designing implementing and operating highly scalable software systems and services
• Experience building systems using technologies like Apache Kafka Apache Spark Airflow Kubernetes
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and track record of implementing creative solutions
• Hands on experience with containerized platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• BS in Computer Science or a related field; Masters preferred
• Excellent verbal and written skills. You collaborate effectively with other teams and communicate clearly about your work.

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