We are always looking for amazing talent who can contribute to our growth and deliver results! Geotab is seeking a Lead Data Platform Developer who will be building the Geotab internal machine learning and generative AI platform. This role allows all Geotab data scientists and generative AI developers to explore, train, and build machine learning models, gain access to underlying Large Language Models, and build GenAI agent applications for internal services and end customers in production. If you love technology, and are keen to join an industry leader — we would love to hear from you!
What you'll do:As a Lead Data Platform Developer your key area of responsibility will be leading the architecture, design, and development of our data platform, ensuring scalability, robustness, and efficient processing of both structured and video data at scale. You will need to work closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders at all levels, and engineers across the organization.
To be successful in this role you will be an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial self-starter with an open mindset who thrives in a flat organizational structure, exhibits exceptional communication and collaboration skills, and can effectively manage multiple projects while maintaining clear focus and direction. In addition, the successful candidate will have strong technical mentorship capabilities, advanced problem-solving skills for complex root cause analysis, and a proven ability to evaluate, select, and adopt emerging data platform technologies.
How you'll make an impactArchitect, design, and develop scalable data platforms using cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Apache Flink, and Ray.
Develop and maintain new machine learning platforms managing the machine learning models and generative AI applications and agents.
Develop processes and implement logging, monitoring, and alerting services to ensure the health of Geotab’s AI platform infrastructure.
Develop processes to enrich Geotab’s big data with telematics data at scale.
Work with data scientists to understand data processing needs and develop infrastructure solutions to support these initiatives.
Create and maintain documentation for architecture, requirements, and process flows.
Support internal Geotab teams to assist with data integration with newly developed AI platforms.
Provide technical mentorship to junior and senior team members, conduct detailed code reviews, and lead performance optimization initiatives.
Post-secondary Degree specialization in Computer Science, Software or Computer Engineering or a related field.
10+ years experience in a software developer or a similar role, including developing production-level systems using Python 3.
3-5 years experience managing and developing teams.
Experience in developing and maintaining production services in one of the mainstream cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Experience in designing, building and maintaining production-level application containerization, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
Knowledge of fine-tuning and self-hosting vision large language models and generative AI related frameworks (Langgraph, CrewAI, LiteLLM) is a big plus.
Knowledge of AI/ML platforms, such as Ray, VertexAI, Bedrock, and familiarity with Big Data environments (e.g. Google BigQuery).
Skills Required
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Software or Computer Engineering or related field.
- 10+ years experience in a software developer or similar role, including developing production-level systems using Python 3.
- 3-5 years experience managing and developing teams.
- Experience developing and maintaining production services in GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience designing, building and maintaining application containerization such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Knowledge of AI/ML platforms such as Ray, Vertex AI, Bedrock, and familiarity with Google BigQuery.
- Knowledge of fine-tuning and self-hosting vision large language models and generative AI frameworks (Langgraph, CrewAI, LiteLLM).
- Strong technical mentorship capabilities, code review experience, and performance optimization skills.
GEOTAB Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GEOTAB and has not been reviewed or approved by GEOTAB.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and an EAP as part of a comprehensive core package. U.S. offerings are presented as competitive and consistently paired with other core protections.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with company match in the U.S., with RRSP or pension alternatives in other regions. Retirement savings support is treated as a standard component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — A distinct “baby bonus” for birth or adoption stands out among family‑focused perks. Certain postings and summaries also reference parental leave top‑ups and related supports.
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What We Do
Welcome to Geotab, the #1 commercial telematics company in the world. Geotab is a place where passion, creativity and innovation align. We are committed to advancing technology, empowering businesses and making the roads safer for everyone. Geotab is the world’s leading connected vehicle company for fleets, providing open platform fleet management solutions to businesses of all sizes. Geotab’s intuitive, full-featured solutions are used by over 40,000 customers around the world to help them better manage their drivers and vehicles. With Geotab devices found in over 2 million vehicles, the company processes over 30 billion data points each day to provide insight into productivity, safety, fuel efficiency and more. Geotab’s employees are essential to our success! We strive to put our employees first and are constantly seeking ways to improve workplace culture. Maintaining our unique culture is vital - after all, staff that enjoy their work environment are motivated to reach their full potential. Employee growth and development has long been the basis of our philosophy, as staff are encouraged to carve their own path within the expanding organization. Challenging the status quo and seeking creative ideas is what we do best.
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