Senior Platform Engineer

PLATFORM ENGINEERING LLC
United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$149,000.0 - $282,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Computing Platforms Microsoft Azure Profiling Code Review Data Stores Software Debugging Elasticsearch Memcached Routing Ruby on Rails
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Redis Web Application Frameworks AI Infrastructure Datadog Google Cloud Load Balancing Feature Engineering Firewalls (Computer Science) Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Apache Kafka Terraform

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. This role will have a direct impact on our customers, our engineers, and our business by ensuring our applications are highly available, scalable, and performant., Our ideal candidate is an Infrastructure Engineer experienced in scaling Ruby on Rails applications, with a passion for optimization and performance improvements. You bring a strong background in Site Reliability and Infrastructure Engineering for Rails applications. You follow Agile and DevOps principles, can effectively influence teams to achieve goals, and demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills in our fast-paced environment. Your Impact

As a Senior Platform Engineer on Fleetio’s Platform Engineering team, you will:

  • Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
  • Manage and scale a Ruby on Rails stack
  • Implement monitoring tools to improve observability
  • Perform code review of new features to ensure they meet performance requirements
  • Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
  • Plan for the growth of, optimize, and automate Fleetio’s Infrastructure
  • Partner with feature engineering teams to help them build, deploy, and operate their features safely and efficiently
  • Respond to reliability and security incidents, from triage and mitigation through post-incident follow-up, Build and operate scalable ML infrastructure and platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments. Develop Python-based developer tooling, services, and production systems supporting experimentation, distributed training, model deployment, and operations. Lead complex initiatives from architecture through rollout, improve reliability and developer productivity, and partner with ML and infrastructure teams. The role emphasizes Kubernetes, AWS, distributed compute, GPU-intensive workloads, observability, and production excellence. Top Skills: AirflowAWSCloud ComputingComputer VisionDistributed SystemsKubeflowKubernetesMachine Learning InfrastructurePythonRayRoboticsSpark Danaher Corporation

Requirements

  • 5+ years of AWS Experience
  • 3+ years Kubernetes Experience
  • Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
  • Deep understanding of cloud network fundamentals (routing, firewalls, load balancers, CDNs, VPCs, etc.)
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails or an equivalent web application framework
  • Expert at profiling and benchmarking source code
  • Effective at code review, and identifying potential performance problems before they reach production
  • Experience with Datadog or other APM tools
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Considered a Plus

  • Experience with distributed event and data stores, such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and TimescaleDB
  • You know a thing or two about the fleet management industry
  • Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive work and accelerate infrastructure projects

Benefits & conditions

  • Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)
  • Vision insurance
  • Incentive stock options
  • 401(k) match of 4%
  • PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)
  • 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
  • Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks paid)
  • FSA & HSA options
  • Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
  • Community service funds
  • Professional development funds
  • Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
  • Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly
  • Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
  • Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks (BHM only)
  • Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-Remote

Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

This application is not intended to and does not create a contract or offer of employment. Employment with Fleetio is at will.

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About the company

A little about us…Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations worldwide manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market, and we’re leading the charge with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $450M in our Series D funding round in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!, Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations around the world manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market and we’re leading the charge, with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $450M in Series D in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!

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