Full-Time
Platform Engineer
Posted on 8/17/2026
Bestpass
51-200 employees
Toll management for commercial fleets
No salary listed
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hybrid
Hybrid work arrangement in Edmonton.
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- At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, or infrastructure roles working with similar technologies at production scale.
- Strong Linux fundamentals across Ubuntu and Debian environments, including systemd, nmcli, networking, and package management, with experience in embedded or edge hardware.
- Proven Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting pods, inspecting events, tuning resource scheduling, and tracing requests through layered routing stacks.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Experience with PromQL, LogQL, Databricks SQL, and CloudWatch queries, and building useful dashboards.
- A solid networking foundation covering DNS, TLS, TCP, ARP, firewalls, VPN behavior, and load balancer behavior in cloud and physical environments.
- Ability to work effectively with legacy systems, vendor constraints, and incomplete documentation while steadily improving systems.
- Ability to write clear runbooks, explain complex systems to non-infrastructure teammates, and document environments clearly.
- Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, including EKS, EC2, ALB/ELB, ACM, IAM, ECR, and Auto Scaling Groups, with a focus on uptime, cost efficiency, and deployment safety.
- Maintain Kubernetes platform health, including deployments, ingress, HPA, secrets, Helm releases, and production incident response.
- Trace broken requests through public and internal load balancers, reverse proxies, and Kubernetes ingress.
- Partner with development teams to improve deployment pipelines, reduce manual steps, and raise reliability across environments.
- Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and telemetry pipelines using Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, Grafana Alloy, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
- Create actionable metrics, log views, and traces for engineering and operations teams.
- Write PromQL, LogQL, SQL, and CloudWatch queries and build alert quality into operational practices.
- Support distributed Linux-based field hardware, including physical servers, embedded devices, vendor integrations, and data-forwarding services connecting field systems to the cloud.
- Troubleshoot connectivity, routing, ARP, DNS, firewall rules, VPN behavior, and TCP socket data flows in remote environments.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, automation, and configuration management practices for repeatable and resilient field operations.
- Own and improve Terraform and Terraform Cloud codebases, Ansible playbooks, Azure DevOps and GitLab continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, and shell/Python automation.
- Harden and document Linux systems across cloud and edge environments.
- Build supported platform workflows that help product teams provision services, ship code, and operate services in production.
- Gather engineering-team feedback, prioritize platform capabilities based on impact, and measure adoption and satisfaction.
- Partner with security to implement secrets management, policy-as-code, supply chain security, and least-privilege defaults.
- Experience with Windows Server, SQL Server, SSRS, Datadog DBM, .NET worker services, or Temporal.
Bestpass provides toll management services for commercial fleets in the United States. It uses vehicle transponders to automatically pay tolls, then consolidates charges into a single invoice with online reporting to assign costs to specific vehicles. The company differentiates itself with nationwide coverage on major U.S. toll roads and strategic tolling partnerships that streamline payments for fleets. Its goal is to reduce administrative work and toll costs so fleet operators can focus on their core logistics.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$19.1M
Headquarters
Town of Colonie, New York
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Drivewyze acquisition on 2025-10-03 expands Bestpass into weigh-station bypass and compliance.
- Fleetworthy launched shared access, centralized vehicle management, and FleetworthyGO on 2026-05-22.
- Transflo partnership and Geotab integrations widen distribution across 65,000 fleets and 800,000 drivers.
What critics are saying
- New York State Thruway Authority's 1% surcharge fight threatens Bestpass margins and customer pricing.
- Fleetworthy's 2026 brand unification can confuse customers and disrupt product adoption.
- PrePass and Verra Mobility pressure pricing; private toll managers face disintermediation risk if states insource billing.
What makes Bestpass unique
- Fleetworthy unified Bestpass, Drivewyze, and CPSuite into one fleet-readiness suite on 2026-02-19.
- Bestpass covers 100% of major U.S. toll roads with one monthly statement.
- Geotab integration now forecasts future toll spend and manages transponders inside MyGeotab.
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Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Wellness Program
Employee Referral Bonus
Company News
/PRNewswire/ -- Bestpass-Fleetworthy Solutions, the leader in toll management, safety, and compliance solutions, today announced it has acquired Drivewyze, the...
ALBANY, N.Y., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestpass, Inc., the leader in toll management solutions and major innovator in safety and compliance solutions for commercial fleets, today announced two key additions to its leadership team. Bestpass is pleased to welcome Shay Demmons as Chief Product Officer and Scott Chao, as Chief Marketing Officer. These strategic hires will aid in Bestpass' commitment to scale its service offerings and network integrations for commercial fleets and owner operators."We're thrilled to have Shay and Scott join the team at Bestpass," said Tom Fogarty, CEO of Bestpass. "We set out to build out our Innovation and Growth teams by attracting accomplished leaders as our first C-Level executives in Product and Marketing. Scott and Shay bring extensive and dynamic work experience, both in and outside the transportation industry. As we continue to grow the Bestpass brand and bring forth new solutions for our customers, I am confident that their leadership will play a pivotal role in driving our success."Chao joins Bestpass as CMO with deep experience in growing companies through strategy and transformational improvements
Toll management solutions provider Bestpass is working with telematics creator Geotab to help commercial fleets better manage and monitor tolls to reduce expenses.
Geotab customers using Bestpass can now access new toll activity data and reporting features through a single interfaceALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestpass, Inc., a comprehensive payment platform provider and the leader in toll management solutions for commercial fleets, today announced a new integrated offering within the Geotab ecosystem that will enable Bestpass customers access to first-of-its-kind toll data and reporting tools in their Geotab account. Geotab, a global leader in connected transportation solutions, provides telematics – vehicle and asset tracking – capabilities to over 50,000 customers in 160 countries. The integration will allow fleets and owner operators the ability to gain new insight into toll activity to more effectively manage tolls and identify opportunities to reduce toll expenses.Bestpass LogoAccording to David Long, Head of Product at Bestpass, the company developed its Toll Genius data reporting system to integrate with telematics providers, such as Geotab, to enable Bestpass to synchronize and share toll and telematics data through a single interface.With this integration, Bestpass customers can leverage accurate vehicle data and GPS location through Geotab and match that information with toll charges received from their Bestpass account via the MyGeotab interface. If there's a discrepancy between vehicle GPS location and the toll a vehicle received, it's reported. This feature makes it easier for customers to identify and investigate the issue, dispute an inaccurate toll charge or violation, and reduces the risk of disputes over toll charges with drivers and customers.The integration also has a new toll activity reporting feature that shows a high-level heat map that allows fleets to identify hot spots for toll spend
/PRNewswire/ -- Bestpass, the leading toll management and payment platform for commercial vehicles, announced today that it has acquired Fleetworthy Solutions,...