Senior Platform Engineer

TruckSmarter; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision Plans

Competitive Pay

401k

Unlimited PTO

Lunch + dinner daily

Commuter benefits

Job summary

A logistics technology company in San Francisco is seeking senior platform engineers to build efficient infrastructure that supports both traditional and AI workloads. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience with AWS and infrastructure as code. You will design core architectures and mentor peers to improve operational resilience. This position requires in-office presence three days a week, offering competitive pay and generous benefits including unlimited PTO and daily meals.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and evolving core platform architecture.
• Ability to lead security initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Proven track record in building scalable and reliable infrastructure.
• Comfortable with TypeScript and Node.js or similar back-end ecosystems.
• Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end and mentor peers.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the core platform architecture.
• Build and scale the infrastructure for traditional ML and AI systems.
• Define and automate deployment pipelines and CI/CD.
• Define and automate deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and observability frameworks.
• Lead security initiatives to ensure compliance, harden systems, and improve access controls.
• Mentor engineers on best practices in reliability, automation, and performance engineering.
• Drive incident response and postmortem culture to increase resilience and operational excellence.

Skills

3+ years of experience building and scaling production infrastructure

Strong background in AWS (ECS, RDS, VPC, S3)

Comfortable with TypeScript and Node.js

Experience in fast-paced, startup environments

Startup experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience

Tools

IaC (CDK, Terraform)

RDS

VPC

S3

IAM

WAF

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

About TruckSmarter

Logistics is one of the single largest industries in the world. Globally, logistics is an $8-$12 trillion dollar industry and in the US alone, ~$2 trillion, representing ~10% of GDP. A single percent of improvement drives profound change to every corner of the world—from the cost of our goods, to the livelihoods of local communities, to even the impact on our environment. To reshape the industry, at TruckSmarter, our focus is first on truck drivers. Trucks move 71% of freight in America (~$800bn annually) & the trucking industry represents nearly 6% of the full-time jobs in the country. If you look around you, every item has sat on a truck at one point on its journey to you. However, despite the industry being one of the greatest levers of innovation throughout history, it is still deeply fragmented & structurally misaligned. Our mission is to fix that—and we need your help.

The Role

We’re looking for senior platform engineers to help us build the foundation that enables TruckSmarter’s vision of eliminating inefficiencies across the freight industry. You’ll architect and maintain the systems that keep our platform fast, resilient, and cost-efficient, and be deeply involved in designing core services, improving developer velocity, and building infrastructure that supports both traditional and AI-based workloads.

In this role, you will:

• Design and evolve the core platform architecture, including core application frameworks and abstractions, powering TruckSmarter’s systems.
• Build and scale the infrastructure that powers our traditional ML and agentic-AI systems.
• Build and maintain reliable infrastructure across AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, WAF, Redshift, DMS, and related services) using IaC (CDK, Terraform).
• Define and automate deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and observability frameworks.
• Lead security initiatives to ensure compliance, harden systems, and improve access controls.
• Mentor engineers on best practices in reliability, automation, and performance engineering.
• Drive incident response and postmortem culture to increase resilience and operational excellence.

What Excites You

• Impact at scale—shaping the core systems that will redefine a $900B industry.
• Solving problems at the intersection of infra, AI, and product delivery.
• Designing and scaling systems that support high throughput and high availability.
• Building infrastructure and tooling that enables other engineers to move faster and ship safely, while eliminating toil.

What Excites Us

• 3+ years of experience building and scaling production infrastructure.
• Strong background in AWS (ECS, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, WAF) and IaC (CDK, Cloudformation, Terraform, or similar).
• Experience in fast-paced, startup environments where you’ve had to wear multiple hats.
• Comfortable with TypeScript and Node.js or similar back-end ecosystems.
• Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end and mentor peers.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

We Offer

• Health, Dental & Vision Plans
• Competitive Pay
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch + dinner daily
• Commuter benefits

Working model: TruckSmarter offers an in-office collaborative culture. This role is based out of our downtown San Francisco office, and requires in-office presence three days per week (typically Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).

We would love to have you be a part of something special, and are excited to review your application.