Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

📋 Job Overview

Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations worldwide manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market, and we’re leading the charge with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $450M in our Series D funding round in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!

🏢 About Fleetio

Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations around the world manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market and we’re leading the charge, with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $450M in Series D in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!

🎯 The Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. This role will have a direct impact on our customers, our engineers, and our business by ensuring our applications are highly available, scalable, and performant.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Manage and scale a Ruby on Rails stack
• Implement monitoring tools to improve observability
• Perform code review of new features to ensure they meet performance requirements
• Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
• Plan for the growth of, optimize, and automate Fleetio’s Infrastructure
• Partner with feature engineering teams to help them build, deploy, and operate their features safely and efficiently
• Respond to reliability and security incidents, from triage and mitigation through post-incident follow-up

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of AWS Experience
• 3+ years Kubernetes Experience
• Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
• Deep understanding of cloud network fundamentals (routing, firewalls, load balancers, CDNs, VPCs, etc.)
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or an equivalent web application framework
• Expert at profiling and benchmarking source code
• Effective at code review, and identifying potential performance problems before they reach production
• Experience with Datadog or other APM tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with distributed event and data stores, such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and TimescaleDB
• You know a thing or two about the fleet management industry
• Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive work and accelerate infrastructure projects

🎁 Benefits

• Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)
• Vision insurance
• Incentive stock options
• 401(k) match of 4%
• PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)
• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks paid)
• FSA & HSA options
• Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
• Community service funds
• Professional development funds
• Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
• Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly
• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
• Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks (BHM only)
• Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-Remote

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This is a remote opportunity and is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.