Staff Software Engineer - Backend w/Kafka
Motive · Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle
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- Company
- Motive
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle
- Salary
- $140,000 — $193,000
- Posted
- July 31, 2026
About this job
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Equipment Monitoring team, you will build the backend systems that give fleets unmatched visibility into the location, utilization, and health of their equipment - trailers, reefers, construction machinery, and small assets. Our data comes from IoT devices in the field: Asset Gateways, BLE environmental and door sensors, and Beacons. You will design and operate the ingestion and stream-processing pipelines (Kafka, Flink) that turn this raw sensor telemetry into accurate real-time locations, geofence events, trips, and alerts. You will collaborate closely with our Embedded/firmware and IoT teams on device payloads and end-to-end data flows, making this a great role for engineers who enjoy working near the hardware while building cloud services at scale.…
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