Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 45 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

Job Application Deadline: 10/30/2024

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team working hybrid in Denver, Colorado; Beaverton, Oregon; or remote Seattle, Washington. 

Candidate profile

As a Staff Engineer on the Platform Engineering team you will be responsible for collaborating with our other Principal Engineers to design and create the core functionality of our DevSecOps practices for managed container and serverless platforms in AWS cloud. You will also be expected to provide technical leadership in an advisory capacity both inside our department and outside our department to the software engineering and on-prem infrastructure departments. Lastly you will collaborate with our community of Principal Engineers across the Engineering organization to ensure technical solutions are delivered cohesively organization-wide.

The Skills and Experience You'll Bring

• Work with others to resolve issues in a meaningful and respectful manner
• Ability to influence technical decisions both internally and to other departments in the organization.
• Strong CI/CD DevSecOps pipeline experience.
• Working with open-source tools across an organization.
• Continuous Deployment best practices knowledge and experience working with tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools. 
• Expert-level experience with EKS configuration, management, and troubleshooting.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration and management using Terraform & CDK.
• Understanding of networking in AWS & Kubernetes including service meshes, load balancing, and VPCs.
• Strong scripting language experience i.e., Python, Bash
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes core issues with system-level services.
• Experience running Linux workloads and Linux OS fundamentals.
• Experience with AWS control tower blueprints.
• Proficiency in modern development practices and systems engineering principles.

Bonus Skills 

• Experience in designing, implementing, and scaling multi-cluster, multi-region, and multi-account infrastructure.
• Experience in IDP implementations in Org level is a plus 

Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $145,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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