Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

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 thr