Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Canada is proud to be a Great Place To Work® Certified company — 92% of employees at RV Tech Canada say it is a great place to work, compared to 60% at a typical company.

🎯 The Role

The Parallax Cloud team is focused on delivering a highly performant, scalable, and globally distributed zero-downtime platform that underpins vehicle, mobile, and cloud service communications. In this role, you will architect, implement, and operate key cloud platform services powering real-time connectivity across global products. Your work will focus on scaling low-latency messaging, engineering resilient APIs, and ensuring end-to-end operational visibility.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Architect, construct, and maintain foundational cloud services and platform solutions that power low-latency, real-time messaging and APIs worldwide.
• Take ownership of high-throughput messaging systems (such as NATS): oversee upgrades, validate performance, perform capacity planning, and implement comprehensive observability including dashboards and alerts.
• Design and support gRPC/Protobuf APIs alongside client integrations, streamlining communication between services and from clients to the cloud with robust telemetry.
• Lead infrastructure automation and deployment workflows using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Crossplane or Terraform) across development, staging, and production environments.
• Build production-grade monitoring using Datadog dashboards and alerting, utilizing Prometheus/Grafana as needed for tracking metrics and SLOs.
• Configure and optimize reverse proxies and API gateways (such as NGINX or Envoy) to ensure reliable, secure ingress and routing at scale.
• Oversee PKI/certificate pipelines and service identities to guarantee secure authentication and transport across multi-environment deployments.
• Develop and execute E2E, integration, and scaling test pipelines to verify performance, functionality, and prevent regressions prior to production release.
• Advance multi-region reliability, optimize cost and performance, and support expanding multi-tenant capabilities as the platform grows across new programs and brands.

📌 Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, high-scale backend services, or streaming and messaging platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or TypeScript, alongside solid foundations in API design, networking, and concurrency.
• Practical experience managing production services with strong observability practices (traces, logs, metrics) and participating in on-call rotations.
• Working knowledge of AWS (Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Infrastructure as Code solutions (e.g., Crossplane or Terraform).

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on expertise with high-throughput messaging systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, MQTT), gRPC, and designing multi-region/multi-tenant architectures.
• Familiarity with API gateways (NGINX/Envoy) and implementing secure transport and authentication patterns.
• Track record of maintaining or making contributions to high-impact open-source software.

🎁 Benefits

We build the exceptional — and we believe the people doing that work should be rewarded accordingly. In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program. Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements. In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full-time employees — including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs. Offerings vary by country.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.