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TruckSmarterTruckSmarterSan Francisco, CA

Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer builds and scales core infrastructure for AI-powered trucking platform, including AWS services, deployment pipelines, observability, and security. Requires 3+ years experience with AWS, IaC, TypeScript/Node.js, and leading projects in startups.

195k – 225k
On-site3+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design and evolve our core platform architecture, including application frameworks and abstractions powering TruckSmarter's systems
  • Build and scale the infrastructure supporting our traditional ML and agentic AI systems
  • Build and maintain reliable infrastructure across AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, WAF, Redshift, DMS) 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
  • Drive incident response and postmortem culture to increase resilience and operational excellence
  • Mentor engineers on best practices in reliability, automation, and performance engineering

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years building and scaling production infrastructure
  • Strong background in AWS (ECS, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, WAF) and IaC (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar)
  • Comfortable with TypeScript and Node.js or similar backend ecosystems
  • Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end and mentor peers
  • Experience thriving in fast-moving startup environments where you've had to wear multiple hats

Demonstrated experience in lieu of a formal degree is absolutely fine.

We Offer

  • Full health, dental and vision coverage
  • Daily catered lunch provided in-office, plus dinner covered for anyone working past 6:00pm
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k

Skills

AWSECSRdsS3TerraformCdkTypeScriptNode.jsCI/CDIac

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