Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

Fleetio

2d•Remote

About The Position

Fleetio is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team. The role helps ensure Fleetio’s applications are highly available, scalable, and performant, with a direct impact on customers, engineers, and the business. The position focuses on infrastructure and reliability for Ruby on Rails applications, and partners with feature engineering teams to help them build, deploy, and operate features safely and efficiently. Fleetio’s engineering culture emphasizes product-minded engineers, autonomous teams, continuous delivery, and Agile and DevOps principles. The company reports an average of 40 production deployments per week. This is a remote opportunity open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

Requirements

At least 5 years of AWS experience.
At least 3 years of Kubernetes experience.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Deep understanding of cloud network fundamentals, including routing, firewalls, load balancers, CDNs, and VPCs.
Experience with Ruby on Rails or an equivalent web application framework.
Expertise in profiling and benchmarking source code.
Ability to perform effective code reviews and identify potential performance problems before production.
Experience with Datadog or other APM tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with distributed event and data stores such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and TimescaleDB.
Knowledge of the fleet management industry.
Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive work and accelerate infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
Manage and scale a Ruby on Rails stack.
Implement monitoring tools to improve observability.
Review new feature code to ensure it meets performance requirements.
Debug production issues across all levels of the stack.
Plan for infrastructure growth, optimization, and automation.
Partner with feature engineering teams to help them build, deploy, and operate features safely and efficiently.
Respond to reliability and security incidents, from triage and mitigation through post-incident follow-up.

Benefits

Multiple health and dental coverage options, with 100% coverage for employees and 50% for family.
Vision insurance.
Incentive stock options.
401(k) match of 4%.
Four weeks of PTO, increasing at year two.
12 company holidays and 2 floating holidays.
Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents.
FSA and HSA options.
Short- and long-term disability; short-term disability is 100% paid.
Community service funds.
Professional development funds.
Wellbeing fund of $150 quarterly.
Business expense stipend of $125 quarterly.
Mac laptop and new-hire equipment stipend.
Fully stocked kitchen with drinks and snacks at the Birmingham office.