Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Data Services

About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

The Vehicle Data Services team is seeking passionate and skilled Staff Software Engineers to lead and support our Cloud Data Platform to build massively scalable and robust Data Services that deal with the ingress and egress of data to and from our Backend Applications. These newly created Software Engineer opening will support High throughput telemetry acquisition systems, handling streaming and batch data, data model registry and fleet orchestration for push updates. These Engineers will help build the future of how Cloud & Mobile services willoperate and communicate with vehicles and other Cloud services. This team will create the electric architecture and software for next generation Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). This new R | V Tech Employee will thrive in leading design, developing, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency, robust, scalable, and reliable distributed systems. This position will play a pivotal role in shaping the backbone of R | V Tech’s technology infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and tackling complex technical challenges

Responsibilities

• Experience with technical team leadership for a team of mid-level & Senior engineers across multiple locales

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand system requirements and translate them into scalabletechnical solutions

• Actively participate in long term strategic roadmap across Data Platform initiatives

• Design, develop, and deploy distributed & API-based backend applications and microservices for R | V Tech'sVehicle Data Services Team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Work with event-driven architectures, leveraging technologies like Kafka, Druid, Pinot and Redis to buildefficient and fault-tolerant systems.

• Write high-quality, maintainable code and ensure robust test coverage.

• Implement, monitor, and debug applications, ensuring high availability and low latency.

• Develop, deploy, and maintain solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS.

• Manage and optimize message brokers and implement streaming and queuing solutions as required.

• Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and production issues.

• Participate in an on-call rotation, addressing production issues during off-hours as necessary.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and tools.

• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in Software Engineering principles and Distributed systems design

• Strong understanding of application authentication like OIDC and authorization models based on oauth. Building In skillsets, knowledge of ORY.sh, Okta or similar platform to implement permission management or user entitlements in services is highly preferred.

• Proficiency in Go (GoLang) Programming, and Python, with demonstrated experience buildingproduction-grade applications.

• Good understanding with multi-tier secure and scalable web patterns using REST & WSS

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and familiarity with cloud-native patterns

• Expertise in event-driven architecture and working with message brokers such as Kafka, Druid,and/or Pinot

• Knowledge of Redis for caching, session storage, or distributed data structures

• Understanding of data stores such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS), Amazon DocumentDB, and/or MongoDB is preferable

• Solid understanding of systems debugging, production, and monitoring tools such as Datadog andAmazon CloudWatch

• Experience with unit testing, system testing, and performance testing

• Experience building cost effective and efficient designs in your technology choices

• Strong knowledge of Git for version control and collaboration

• Ability to self-manage and drive projects to completion while working independently

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD is also preferred.

• Familiarity with communications protocols like Protobuf & GRPC is highly preferred.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, Crossplane, ArgoCD

• Familiarity Agentic frameworks and protocols such as MCP, ACP, etc is a real plus

• Familiarity with AI First tools such as Cursor, Glean, etc

• Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred, but notrequired.

Total Rewards

Full-time positions include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity.

In addition to base salary, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies offers benefits tailored to the local market. For more information on the benefits available for full-time employees, check out our Global Benefits Site.

External candidates can apply for this role through the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers). If you are a current employee, please apply through our internal job board.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

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