Senior Platform Engineer

Who We Are

Arrive Logistics is a leading transportation and technology company in North America, having surpassed $2 billion in annual revenue with plans to grow significantly year over year. Our success is a testament to our remarkable team and what we’re building together. We’re committed to providing employees with a meaningful work experience and have established an award-winning culture that supports personal and career development in a fun, casual and collaborative environment. There’s never been a more exciting time to get on board, so read on to learn more and apply today!

Who We Want

As a Senior Platform Engineer for Arrive Logistics, you will be responsible for creating an internal developer platform which improves the efficiency of engineering teams and lowers the cognitive complexity of delivering business value creating solutions for our users. Your role requires empathizing with the engineer experience, identifying bottlenecks and pain points, and providing creative solutions to accelerate the work of other engineers. You will work with tools and platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, and New Relic, and programming languages such as dotnet, kotlin, and python to create innovative solutions to common developer roadblocks. 

What You’ll Do

• Create bespoke tooling to abstract complexities of technologies like Kubernetes and simplify the learning curve of challenging tools
• Act as a subject matter expert for Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies 
• Work closely with product engineers, data engineers, and others to understand the challenges they face when delivering business solutions
• Create automation to ensure repeatability, eliminate toil, reduce mean time to detection and resolution
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand and drive requirements that take in all parties’ needs and reach optimal outcomes. Utilize knowledge of business needs and project requirements to assess benefit and risk analysis and to advise on the best course of action. 
• Assess and advise on course corrections as needed 
• Translate high level or incomplete direction into planned tasks. Use industry knowledge to contribute to the direction of projects.
• Design CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure
• Produce high quality documentation and support tooling
• Understand the challenges of learning various technologies and design, create, and deliver training materials to help bridge the gap
• Mentor junior engineers and share platform knowledge across teams

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in systems, software, platform, site reliability, or DevOps engineering
• 2 + years of experience building or operating cloud applications on a major provider such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP
• Experience leading teams or large scale projects
• Capable of owning technical design of high complexity without guidance
• Demonstrated experience with CI / CD tools such as Azure DevOps, CircleCi, Github Actions, or similar
• Ability to handle projects end-to-end with little or no oversight
• Expertise in cloud automation using Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform (preferred), Chef, or Puppet
• Capable of communicating technical decisions and design to non technical stakeholders
• Experience writing code in .NET, Java / Kotlin, or Python
• A history of mentoring junior engineers on technical and soft skills
• Expertise with multiple types of datastores such as Sql Server, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, and similar
• Significant experience working with distributed and event based architectures
• Significant experience with containerized workloads and Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems

The Perks of Working With Us

• Take advantage of excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
• Invest in your future with our matching 401(k) program.
• Build relationships and find your home at Arrive through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Enjoy office wide engagement activities, team events, happy hours and more!
• Leave the suit and tie at home; our dress code is casual.
• Work in the booming city of Austin, TX – we are in a convenient location close to the airport and downtown.
• Park your car for free on site!
• Start your morning with a specialty drink from our fully stocked coffee bar, Broker’s Brew.
• Sweat it out with the team at our onsite gym.
• Maximize your wellness with free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program
• Get paid to work with your friends through our Referral Program!
• Get relocation assistance! If you are not local to the area, we offer relocation packages and have a Candidate Engagement Specialist who can answer any questions.

Your Arrive Experience

When we say “award-winning culture,” we mean it. We’ve been recognized as a top workplace by Inc. Fast Company, Fortune, and earned Top Workplaces and Great Place to Work, to name a few. We intend on topping many more of those lists in the years to come, but we’re not in it for the trophies. We’re committed to culture because it keeps us connected to each other and invested in our shared success while having a blast along the way. Our employee-founded resource groups create communities within Arrive’s walls, including Women in Logistics, Emerging Professionals, Prisms, Black Logistics Group, Salute and Unidos. 

Notice:

To ensure a safe and transparent interview process, we want to note that Arrive Logistics adheres to strict recruitment practices. Candidates undergo an interview process, and Arrive Logistics does not provide unsolicited job offers. If you have concerns about receiving a fraudulent offer, please contact [email protected] for verification.