Software Engineer

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. 

As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

In this position, you will be on the front lines providing support for our customers and educating the Rivian community on our continuously growing products and services. You will be a leader in driving our customer service philosophy. The opening will be located at our Vancouver, BC office location and report directly to our Sr. Manager, Software Engineering. 

• Production Readiness Process: Support review and implementation of observability, reliability, and supportability standards before deployment
• Collaborate with Infra and DevEx teams on platform engineering projects with specific emphasis on infra resilience, observability, and maintenance
• Support development of in-house observability stack and cost management analysis of external tools
• Incident Management process improvement: examine existing processes, participate in retrospective analysis of incidents, and recommend/integrate changes as needed
• Microservice and serverless optimization: collaborate with other teams on their systems to optimize where needed for cost savings, resource optimization, and reliability

• Kubernetes Experience: clear understanding of kubernetes for container orchestration and application deployment
• Observability: experience with deploying, and maintaining open source and saas observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc)
• CI/CD Experience: working experience creating and managing pipelines

Salary Range for British Columbia Based Applicants: $86,200 - $107,800 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law). 

Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental, and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or deomestic partner, and children up to age 26. Full Time Employee Coverage is effective on the first day of employment. Part-Time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at 

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. 

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.  

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.