We are looking for strong engineers to build and scale the platform and infrastructure for CloudTrucks. Our customers are out on the road, across the country, using our services 24/7. We can’t afford to have downtime because their businesses depend on us!
As a platform infrastructure engineer, you will design, build, and maintain our infrastructure as well as provide production quality software, platform services, and automation that help the rest of engineering operate more effectively and reliably (e.g. enabling monitoring, search, rate limiting capabilities, etc). Product engineering teams are your primary customers.
There is a lot to be done to make our systems more robust and easier to work with than it is today. You’ll have the autonomy and opportunity to provide technical leadership and direction and make decisions that have a significant impact for all engineers.
Responsibilities
Lead development and write production code for lower level core services that can be leveraged by every developer at the company.
From dev environment to CI/CD, provide automation and services that help product engineers ship code safer and faster.
Design, build and operate a highly available, and resilient infrastructure that scales with CloudTrucks growth. Some technologies we use today are: Python / Django, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Google Cloud Platform.
Help product engineers troubleshoot and debug urgent site issues across services and stacks.
Implement policies and best practices to keep our platform and infrastructure secure.
Interface and problem solve with other engineering teams to identify pain points and help move the business forward.
Example projects may include:
Build a structured logging + monitoring pipeline that integrates and consumes logs from our python applications.
Build tools, introduce guardrails, and automation for zero downtime deployments.
Improve the local docker dev environment for easier setup and to be more performant.
Introduce release toggling and feature flagging capabilities that can be leveraged by product engineering teams.
Ensure CI / CD workflows continue to scale with our growing engineering team. E.g. enable test parallelization, report coverage, utilize caching, etc.
Requirements
4+ years of relevant industry experience and a track record of successful execution on production systems.
Comfortable writing production quality code and making framework level contributions to our core backend services (in Python + Django).
Self-motivated and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with minimal direction and high autonomy.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Including the ability to draft and articulate technical and system design requirements.
Collaborates well with different stakeholders.
Broad knowledge of web technologies, systems design, and infrastructure stack.
Proficiency with Unix/Linux, docker containers, infrastructure as code, scripting and application programming languages.
Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
Experience with running highly available distributed systems on a cloud platform.
Nice to haves:
Experience with our technical stack: Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Google Cloud Platform.
Salary Range:
$185,000 - $225,000
Actual compensation packages depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At CloudTrucks certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
A bit about our culture:
We value high autonomy, ownership, and delivering results - in short - whatever it takes to set our customers up for success. We encourage each other to push the envelope, execute quickly, and be resilient to failure. We also work occasional late nights or weekends to deliver an above-and-beyond customer experience, while respecting and celebrating each other’s personal background, values and commitments. In return, we are well compensated, take pride in seeing outsized impact to our product, and have memorable experiences learning and growing alongside a truly exceptional set of peers.
About CloudTrucks
CloudTrucks is a virtual trucking carrier in the multi-billion dollar trucking space. Core to this industry are over 3.5M truck drivers. They move more than 70% of all goods transported around the U.S., yet operate in a highly fragmented industry with huge opportunities for products, services and automation. We strive to deliver solutions that help truck drivers operate with much greater efficiency, increase their revenue, and offload business complexity. We are looking for uniquely exceptional people to join us on our journey as we massively scale into an industry-defining business. Recently, we raised $115 million in a Series B round. Here is a letter from our CEO that describes what’s next.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
