Drivemode

Senior DevOps Engineer

Reposted 25 Days Ago

Mountain View, CA

Hybrid

175K-219K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology

The Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, maintain CI/CD systems, automate deployments, manage cloud infrastructure, and enhance developer tools and security.

Summary Generated by Built In

Our Mission:

Driving technology always feels old. Not by a little bit. We believe vehicles can be a thousand times smarter, safer, and more connected to the world around us, and our mission is to see it happen. In 2019, we joined forces with Honda as their first startup acquisition, and now we’re expanding our vision into building the future of electric vehicles (BEV) for millions of people around the world.

Why Drivemode:

Join Drivemode for an exciting startup environment and a vibrant culture that combines impactful work, competitive compensation, and excellent benefits. By becoming a part of our team, you'll contribute to a crucial mission that revolutionizes the way people engage with vehicles, addressing both business needs and the world's environmental challenges. This presents an exceptional opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and drive Honda's success in the EV market.

About this Role:

In this role, you will design and refine tools to support software development across mobile and in-vehicle platforms, covering the entire lifecycle from development to testing and deployment. You’ll work on internal CI/CD platforms for mobile applications, ensuring seamless automation, scalability, and efficiency. Additionally, you will support backend teams by addressing infrastructure need, enabling smooth integration between services and development workflows. You can experiment with emerging technologies, optimize workflows, and solve real-world problems, directly impacting the developer experience and product delivery.

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain fast, secure, and reliable CI/CD systems. Continuously improve build pipelines, infrastructure, and developer experience across mobile, backend, and in-vehicle teams.
Implement automation, refine infrastructure, and explore new technologies to streamline builds, deployments, and hardware-software integrations.
Lead efforts in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and security—ensuring systems are scalable, cost-efficient, and compliant with best practices.
Work closely with engineers and help build a team focused on cloud services, developer tools, and hardware test bench development.
Drive company vehicles to support hands-on product development, testing, and real-world validation.
Create clear documentation, participate in incident response and postmortems, and drive continuous improvements in tooling, infrastructure, and security processes.

Requirements

Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Puppet, Chef, FluxCD); and configuration management (Ansible).
Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), Docker, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Nomad.
Strong knowledge of GIT
Proficient with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana and Datadog.
Kotlin, Rust, Python, Ruby, and Shell scripting.
Strong problem-solving and communication abilities.

NICE TO HAVE

iOS and Android knowledge
Automotive industry experience
Japanese language skills

EEOC Statement

Drivemode is proud of a very diverse team with employees coming from 5 continents/11 countries as of today. Diversity in our workplace has played an important part in our success; we recognize each employee’s unique background, knowledge, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints which are all critical in developing a product that has the greatest impacts on drivers all over the world.

Drivemode provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristics that make you unique.

Top Skills

Ansible

AWS

Azure

Chef

Datadog

Docker

Fluxcd

GCP

Github Actions

Grafana

Kotlin

Kubernetes

Nomad

Opentofu

Puppet

Python

Ruby

Rust

Shell Scripting

Terraform

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The Company

HQ: Redwood City, CA

30 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Drivemode enables smarter, safer, connected driving in any vehicle.

Drivemode was founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs from Zipcar and Tesla Motors who set out to fundamentally change the way consumers use technology in the car. Drivemode offers a mobile-based connected car platform through a consumer-facing Android app, driver assistance and analytics for fleet managers, and a bring-your-own-device connected car solution for automakers. The Drivemode app transforms a user’s phone into a car’s central computing device allowing voice-to-text messaging, music player overlay on navigation, “Do Not Disturb” mode, message auto-reply, and personalized travel recommendations. The Drivemode app has an automotive-grade interface designed and developed to adhere to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration safety guidelines for driving apps. Drivemode has raised $9.2M from industry leaders. Learn more at https://drivemode.com or download Drivemode at bit.ly/getdrivemode.