Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Wolfsburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop cloud services and APIs to enhance communication between vehicles and applications, while operating distributed systems and high-performance messaging platforms.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Parallax Cloud team builds the communication fabric that lets vehicles, mobile apps, and cloud services exchange live state and commands securely and reliably.
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build and operate services and APIs that hide messaging, routing, and authorization complexity from product teams.
- This is hands-on platform work: you will solve distributed-systems problems, trace failures across the stack, and carry changes from design through production.
- Design, build, and operate cloud services and gRPC/Protobuf APIs that let product teams read vehicle state, subscribe to changes, and send commands.
- Operate and tune NATS, our high-performance messaging system, including configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance validation, and capacity planning.
- Own services end to end, from implementation through deployment and production operation, using Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Diagnose des Produktionsverhaltens anhand von Metriken, Traces, Logs, Dashboards und Alerts.
- Design, operate, and tune service networking, load balancers, and L4/L7 traffic routing.
- Develop and run end-to-end, integration, and load tests to catch functional and performance regressions before production.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language and willingness to work primarily in Go, with occasional work in Java and TypeScript client SDKs.
- Solid foundations in API design, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems with working knowledge of Kubernetes.
- Vertrautheit mit mTLS, Zertifikaten, Service-Identität, sicherem Transport und Authentifizierungsmustern.
- Nachweis der Pflege oder Mitwirkung an etablierten Open-Source-Projekten.
Experience
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, high-scale backend services, or streaming and messaging platforms.
- Practical experience building and operating production services, including observability and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with high-throughput messaging systems such as NATS, Kafka, or MQTT.
- Experience with Kubernetes and owning service deployments; familiarity with GitOps/Argo CD and infrastructure as code.
- Strong knowledge of HTTP/2, TCP, L4/L7 load balancing along with experience operating gRPC services in production is a major plus.
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What we offer
- In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be 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.
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About Your Employer
Rivian
Rivian Automotive, Inc. is a US-based manufacturer of electric vehicles located in Irvine, California. The company focuses on the development of electric cars and offers additional services such as financing and maintenance. Rivian collaborates with partners like Amazon and Volkswagen to create advanced technologies for electric vehicles.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Vehicle Manufacturing, Supplier
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
- Location
- Wolfsburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
