Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will provide technical leadership for backend services and platform capabilities. You will shape architecture, deliver APIs, and mentor engineers using a Go-based stack.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and delivery of backend services and platform capabilities.
• Design clear, secure, version-able APIs and service contracts.
• Build and evolve distributed, event-driven systems.
• Raise the bar for Go engineering practices, code quality, and testing.
• Set technical direction for complex, cross-team initiatives.
• Take ownership of production readiness, observability, and incident response.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks to improve customer experience or performance.
• Mentor and coach engineers through design and code reviews.
• Partner with product, design, client, security, and other engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• Significant professional experience building and operating backend software in production.
• Depth in Go or a comparable language and the ability to contribute in Go.
• Track record of designing and delivering distributed services, APIs, and systems.
• Strong system-design skills.
• Experience with API design and service contracts.
• Security-minded approach to backend development.
• Practical operational judgment with observability, deployment strategies, and incident response.
• Ability to lead across team boundaries and build alignment.
• Collaborative leadership and mentorship style.

Nice to have

• Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, or streaming systems.
• Experience evolving or decomposing large or tightly coupled systems into modular services.
• Experience improving the performance, resilience, or operability of customer-facing platforms.
• Experience working across distributed teams, time zones, or organizational boundaries

Benefits

• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing electric vehicle challenges through technology. The company is a Great Place To Work® Certified company.