Staff Platform Engineer

Description

The company gives people who run physical operations tools to make their work safer, more productive and more profitable. Safety, operations and finance teams can manage drivers, vehicles, equipment and fleet-related spend in one system, with AI that automates and simplifies manual tasks.

The company serves nearly 100,000 customers, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses, in transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail and the public sector.

As a Staff Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will lead the work on the systems and automation that form the build, development and delivery backbone for SaaS, mobile and embedded/IoT products. You will focus on secure, highly scalable distributed services, using tools such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Tekton/TPAC, Helm, Bash and Python, and whatever comes next, to build an automated ecosystem that is easy to use and maintain for Golang, Ruby on Rails and Python services, as well as Kotlin and C for mobile and embedded work. The role suits someone who enjoys setting technical direction for development tools, automation, infrastructure and release pipelines while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction and initiatives for the team and the platform.
• Design and build fully automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines.
• Champion self-service engineering tools and practices.
• Improve the local development experience while keeping it consistent.
• Build self-healing infrastructure that supports fast, reliable automated testing.
• Raise the performance and reliability of existing systems.
• Run Brown Bag sessions, demos and other events that drive adoption and collaboration.
• Coach and mentor engineers and take part in design reviews.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of, and experience building and improving, systems that make the engineering organization more efficient. You should have prior experience in some or all of the following:
• 7 to 10+ years of engineering experience.
• A B.S. degree in engineering or a related field.
• Building CI/CD infrastructure across several pipeline tools, such as Tekton, Prow, CircleCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker and GitHub Actions.
• Improving the software development lifecycle and release process.
• Simplifying how microservices are created.
• Streamlining developers' local environments, using tools such as Ansible or local Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Git flow and versioning strategy.
• Building mechanisms that make builds reproducible across the organization.
• Practicing and promoting engineering best practices across the organization.
• Improving developer experience with many stakeholders in a large organization.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management, such as Terraform, Ansible or Helm.
• Experience managing large-scale distributed release processes.
• Experience working with containers and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.
• Bonus: experience with Gerrit and Android OS (AOSP) build systems.
• Bonus: experience with embedded systems builds and compiles.

Conditions

Pay may depend on factors such as education, work experience and certifications. For some roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units.

The pay range depends on where you live. For this role in the United States, the range is $181,000 to $220,000 USD.

You must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, and the company requires employees to be authorized to access its products and technology.

For US-based roles, depending on the role and primary work location, candidates may be required to sign a non-compete covenant with the company. This does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees in CA, MN, MT, ND or OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law. Elsewhere, non-compete terms follow the applicable statutory requirements, including procedures, industry-related prohibitions, and salary or compensation thresholds.

Some interviews or new-hire training may take place in person at one of the company's global offices.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse, inclusive workplace.

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical and dental coverage.
• Paid time off and sick time off.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• 401k contributions.
• All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.