# Senior Platform Engineer
**Company:** [TruckSmarter](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/trucksmarter)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $195K-$225K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** AWS, ECS, Rds, S3, Terraform, Cdk, TypeScript, Node.js, CI/CD, Iac
**Posted:** 2026-03-31
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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
**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/senior-platform-engineer-at-trucksmarter-dd6494b9-cbc5-4020-846d-a596dc5fb6a2
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