Staff Platform Engineer – Real-Time Telemetry Infra

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

Catena Clearing is seeking a senior platform engineer to own the core infrastructure powering its universal telematics data platform. You will lead cloud architecture, ingestion pipelines, and developer tooling, ensuring sub-second API responses, fault tolerance, and near-100% uptime as data grows.

You will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to rapidly add ELD and telematics integrations while maintaining security and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years in staff/principal leadership.
• Deep experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Proven Docker, multi-region AWS, and IaC expertise (CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi).
• Experience with distributed datastores, message brokers, caching, and time-series DBs.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-term technical strategy and architectural roadmap for Catena's infrastructure.
• Architect and scale distributed event-streaming systems (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka).
• Design API gateways and microservice patterns for rapid EL D and telematics integrations.
• Own cloud footprint (AWS), container orchestration, and IaC to maximise resilience and efficiency.
• Drive observability, telemetry, alerting, and runbooks to minimize MTTR.
• Mentor engineers and conduct architectural reviews (RFCs).

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Python

Leadership

APIs

Tools

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

AWS CDK

Terraform

Pulumi

PostgreSQL

Kinesis

Kafka

Job description

Catena Clearing is seeking a senior platform engineer to own the core infrastructure powering its universal telematics data platform. You will lead cloud architecture, ingestion pipelines, and developer tooling, ensuring sub-second API responses, fault tolerance, and near-100% uptime as data grows.

You will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to rapidly add ELD and telematics integrations while maintaining security and cost efficiency.