Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Apps
Mission Summary:
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Apps team as a strategic technical leader in Singapore. As we transition from R&D to full commercial operations, you will lead the technical evolution of our infrastructure to support a rapidly growing robotaxi fleet.
In this role, you will architect the backbone for our core commercial capabilities—scaling our dispatch engines, building integrations with partners like Uber, and optimizing real-time services.
This is a high-impact technical role where you will drive architectural decisions that ensure our system is robust, scalable, and ready for the rigors of a live passenger service. You will act as a force multiplier for the team, elevating engineering standards and mentoring others as we tackle complex distributed system challenges.
What will you be doing?
- Architect for Scale: Lead the design and optimization of our distributed systems to handle significant fleet growth. You will identify bottlenecks in real-time data pipelines and redesign core services to ensure low-latency performance at commercial scale.
- Commercial Reliability & Observability: Drive the transition from "R&D" to "Commercial Grade" reliability. You will implement high-availability patterns and embed comprehensive observability metrics to ensure end-to-end system health and rapid anomaly detection.
- Technical Roadmap Ownership: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define the technical roadmap. You will balance immediate commercial deliverables with long-term architectural investments to ensure sustainable system evolution.
- Engineering Excellence & Team Growth: Champion best practices in code quality, system design, and documentation. You will mentor senior engineers, shape the engineering culture, and play a key role in the future technical or people leadership of the organization.
What we hope you’ll come with:
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff, Lead, or equivalent senior level.
- You have deep knowledge of concurrency, database consistency, and microservices patterns. You know how to build systems that fail gracefully and recover automatically.
- You have a "reliability mindset." You are experienced with post-mortems, incident management, and building systems that are easy to debug and operate.
- Deep experience with Golang (preferred) or Python in a production environment.
- Strong experience with major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) and a solid understanding of containerization and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
Bonus Points for experience with:
- Experience leading technical projects in a globally distributed team.
- Experience with OLAP databases (e.g., ClickHouse) or building observability tools for monitoring and tracing.
- Previous experience in the Autonomous Vehicle (AV), Robotics, or IoT industries.
Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.
Our journey is always people first.
We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.
Higher purpose, greater impact.
We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.
Scale up, not starting up.
Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.
Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.