Principal Data Platform Engineer

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Data Analysis • $148,000 PA - $226,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Motive is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to take full ownership and drive key data platform initiatives. This role involves the entire lifecycle of data management, including ingestion, processing, storage, and querying systems, with a focus on cost reduction to deliver product features. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader with experience building full data ingestion, transformation, and analytics systems over AWS and Kubernetes in multiple companies, capable of solving complex challenges and contributing to the Motive Data Platform vision. The team builds scalable systems for data ingestion, access, processing, and querying, and collaborates with product teams to enhance the platform.
Must have:
  • 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience
  • Backend programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency
  • Proficient in Python
  • Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems)
  • Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable software systems
  • Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • BS in Computer Science or related field
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Good to have:
  • Masters degree preferred
Perks:
  • Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Sick time off
  • Short term and long term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • 401k contribution

Job Details

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 more than 100,000 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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Job:

As a Principal Data Platform Engineer, 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 a technical leader in the Data Platform area who has built the full data ingestion, transformation and analytics systems over AWS and Kubernetes in multiple companies. This individual would have faced and solved multiple challenges affecting many feature areas during this process using the best practices. This individual will be responsible for contributing significantly to drive the Motive’s Data Platform vision.

The Data Platform team works in three areas: 1. Build scalable systems and services for data ingestion, access, processing and query to enable data driven product features. 2. Collaborate and work closely with the various stakeholders and our backend product teams to improve and add features to the platform.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work with other leaders in the Platform area to define and plan out the long term strategy for Data Platform. 
  • 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 theat 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 We’re Looking For:

  • 10+ 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
  • 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.

 

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting
Motive Perks & Benefits

The base compensation range for this role is:

$148,000 - $226,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here .

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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