Full 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.
This is a remote opportunity and is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
Who You Are
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
Your Experience
- 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
- 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
