Senior Platform Engineer

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. 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 Senior Platform Engineer passionate about developer experience (DevEx), build and release engineering, and robust infrastructure?

We are looking for a hands‑on, seasoned professional to drive continuous integration, release management, and self‑service capabilities across our core stack. You will join a customer‑success‑focused team of engineers building Rivian’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP). In this role, you will help design, implement, and maintain the platform offerings that streamline our software development lifecycle.

By championing standard platform engineering practices and prioritizing DevEx, you will empower Commercial Technology engineering teams to reliably and securely ship products that drive Rivian’s business forward—reducing cognitive load and minimizing friction from local development through rigorous release pipelines, and into production. Responsibilities What You’ll Do Build, maintain, and advocate for self‑service developer tooling and platforms that abstract away complex underlying systems, empowering developers to deploy securely and autonomously. Continuously assess and improve local development environments, build times, and the overall developer feedback loop.

Track and improve engineering efficiency using both qualitative feedback and quantitative baseline data to identify bottlenecks. Treat internal developers as customers by gathering insights and translating them into actionable platform enhancements. Help design and automate scalable, end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines using enterprise continuous integration platforms, integrating automated testing frameworks and deployment tools.

Help define, manage, and optimize the release lifecycle, standardizing release cadences, versioning, and rollback strategies to ensure predictable, low‑risk deployments. Evaluate and integrate modern developer tools, including AI‑assisted coding and review assistants, into the SDLC to accelerate developer flow. Drive declarative GitOps application deployments, rollouts, and rollbacks using modern deployment controllers.

Curate and manage centralized deployment manifests and templates used across multiple projects to standardize application delivery to Kubernetes. Leverage containerization technologies to package, distribute, and run applications consistently across all environments. Oversee Source Code Management (SCM) architecture, ensuring system stability, scalable configuration, and strategic alignment with the broader engineering organization.

Monitor platform performance, troubleshoot system issues, and enforce modern usage practices across all development teams. Help define and implement a robust, automated production readiness process, ensuring all releases meet strict standards for quality, observability, compliance, security, and alerting before hitting production. Embed production readiness checks directly into the CI/CD pipeline to guarantee that deployed apps and services remain compliant over time.

Act as a strategic partner to development teams, identifying pipeline bottlenecks and providing actionable solutions for build and release challenges. Provide expert guidance on CI/CD best practices, release engineering strategies, and GitOps deployments. Qualifications What You’ll Bring Strong experience with in‑house tooling such as GitLab, GitLab CI, Argo CD, and Helm, or equivalent systems like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Flux, and Kustomize. 4–6 years in Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, Build and Release Engineering, or DevOps, supporting large‑scale software engineering organizations.

Proven track record of improving developer productivity, building self‑service platforms, and reducing friction in the software development lifecycle. Deep familiarity with enterprise CI/CD platforms and container registries. Experience building complex, automated CI/CD pipelines and leading release management processes.

Hands‑on experience with container orchestration platforms (AWS EKS, GKE, AKS) and cloud operations. Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is highly preferred. Practical experience with GitOps methodologies and automated Kubernetes deployments. 2–4 years of software development and automation experience.

Strong shell scripting skills (e.g., Bash) are required. Fluency in Go is highly preferred; experience in comparable systems languages (Python, Rust, Java, C#) with an appetite to ramp up on Go is acceptable. Experience overseeing, administering, and scaling enterprise version control systems.

Familiarity with branching strategies (Trunk‑based development, GitFlow) to effectively support and optimize the SDLC is a plus. Pay Disclosure Salary Range for this role is $146,900 - $183,600 for California based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.

An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full‑time and part‑time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short‑term disability insurance, and long‑term disability insurance to eligible employees.

You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full‑time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part‑time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.

More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com. Equal Opportunity Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. 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.

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