Staff Software Engineer - Monitoring
GoMotive · Hybrid - Seattle
About this role
## 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 drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system—powered by industry-leading AI to improve visibility and reduce manual workloads. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers—from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses—across transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. Learn more: http://gomotive.com --- ## About the role As a **Staff Software Engineer** on the **Equipment Monitoring** team, you’ll build backend systems that give fleets real-time visibility into the **location, utilization, and health** of equipment (trailers, reefers, construction machinery, and small assets). Your data comes from IoT devices in the field (Asset Gateways, BLE environmental/door sensors, and Beacons). You’ll design and operate **ingestion and stream-processing pipelines** (Kafka, Flink) to transform raw telemetry into **accurate real-time locations, geofence events, trips, and alerts**. You’ll collaborate closely with Embedded/firmware and IoT teams on device payloads and end-to-end data flows—ideal for engineers who enjoy working near the hardware while building cloud services at scale. --- ## What you’ll do - Develop **highly observable, reliable, and scalable** backend services processing telemetry from hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. - Build and operate **stream-processing pipelines** (Kafka, Flink) for geo-fencing, alerting, trip construction, and asset location. - **Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs** for internal and external applications. - Collaborate with **Embedded, IoT, and cross-functional teams** on device data contracts and feature delivery. - Champion engineering excellence by proactively reducing technical debt and improving code quality. - Leverage AI tools such as **Cursor** and **Copilot** to increase productivity and code quality. - Work on **AWS Cloud infrastructure**, and **mentor and learn** to foster continuous growth. --- ## What we’re looking for - B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or related field) - 5+ years of software development experience - Experience building **distributed systems** and **event-driven/stream-processing pipelines** (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis, or similar)
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