Senior/Staff Frontend Platform Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de l’entreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

The Frontend Platform Engineering department is dedicated to building scalable, high-performance infrastructure that powers the development and delivery of modular, AI-driven features across our applications. This team focuses on creating robust middle-layer services, secure integration points, and seamless pipelines to ensure a frictionless experience for developers and end-users alike. With an emphasis on innovation, quality, and speed, the department sets the foundation for cutting-edge frontend technologies and operational excellence.

Our engineers are experts in architecting micro-frontend systems, optimizing cloud deployments, and leveraging AI to streamline development workflows. They drive cross-functional initiatives, implement rigorous testing strategies, and maintain enterprise-grade standards for security, performance, and accessibility. The Frontend Platform Engineering team is a hub for technical leadership and transformative solutions, enabling the organization to deliver dynamic, high-impact features at scale.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to own the architecture and lifecycle of the high-availability middle-layer services supporting our distributed ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of infrastructure and application delivery, this role focuses on building server-side engines, dynamic configuration registries, and orchestration components using Node.js and TypeScript.

The ideal candidate is a systems-minded engineer who views the frontend web application as a highly critical, complex consumer. You must possess deep, native JavaScript/TypeScript expertise and an authentic frontend foundation to execute high-intent data visualizations, manage runtime client boundaries, and directly contribute to client-side platform features as our architectural roadmap evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Server-Side Node.js Platform Design: Architect, scale, and maintain robust server-side microservices, middleware controllers, and configuration registries (Node.js/TypeScript) that serve as the orchestration engine for downstream applications.

• Autonomous Container Operations & Diagnostics: Take direct ownership of code containerization and deployment pipelines. Write optimized Dockerfiles utilizing multi-stage builds to ensure lean production artifacts, and actively navigate cluster environments using the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) to independently inspect pod states, diagnose routing exceptions, and isolate runtime bugs.

• Ecosystem Cache & Contract Governance: Define and govern strict, type-safe data schemas between backend services and the frontend client. Design and optimize multi-tier caching architectures (such as Redis and CDNs) to mitigate system latency and maximize data throughput.

• High-Intent Data Visualization & Frontend Execution: Design and deliver highly performant, framework-agnostic client components and interactive, real-time data visualizations. Partner with feature teams to ensure smooth integration with the platform shell, managing browser runtime isolation, error boundaries, and state synchronization.

• Technical Advocacy & Alignment: Partner closely with cross-functional team anchors and architects to justify technical investments, reduce platform technical debt, and smoothly coordinate breaking service schema migrations across multiple independent feature teams.

Qualifications & Requirements (Ordered by Priority)

• Node.js & Backend Systems Authority: Extensive, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining high-concurrency backend services or orchestration layers natively within the Node.js / JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem.

• Infrastructure & DevOps Self-Sufficiency: Direct experience constructing localized Docker environments, optimizing container build layers, and troubleshooting live service behaviors inside active Kubernetes clusters.

• Core Frontend Competence: A strong foundation in modern web technologies (React, Next.js, Vue, or Micro-Frontend host-shell concepts) with a practical understanding of client-side performance, browser memory management, and runtime resource limits.

• Ecosystem Extensibility & Scale: Experience engineering modular, decoupled platform infrastructure that allows diverse feature teams to develop and deploy at high velocity without introducing cross-domain dependencies.

Preferred Skills (High-Value Bonus)

• Real-Time Data & Media Pipelines: Experience working with high-frequency, real-time data synchronization frameworks, persistent network architectures (WebSockets, socket brokers), or streaming media protocols (WebRTC, raw audio/video array buffering).

Target Base Salary Range: $130,000 CAD - $145,000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Note: Candidate must go in the office 1-2 days per week.

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Basic Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineer and platform engineering experience

• AND 3+ years of technical leadership experience

• AND 3+ years of TypeScript and Node.js experience

• AND 2+ years of Docker and Kubernetes experience

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.

Motorola Solutions adopte, favorise et promeut les principes de diversité, d’équité et d’inclusion. Nous encourageons et accueillons les candidatures de toutes les personnes qualifiées, quelles que soient leur race, origines ethnique, religion ou croyance, orientation sexuelle, identité et expression sexuelle, statut d’anciens combattants ou tout autre statut protégé par la Loi.

Nous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d’être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d’un monde plus sécuritaire.

Si vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.

Nous offrons également des mesures d’adaptation pendant toutes les étapes du processus d’embauche afin de favoriser l’inclusion des personnes vivant avec un  handicap physique et/ou mental. Pour demander un aménagement, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d'aménagement raisonnable afin que nous puissions vous aider.