Platform Engineer – Senior/Staff - Security
About the job
- At least 6 years of software, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems.
- Experience building security-sensitive systems, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, or infrastructure security.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing platforms, tooling, or abstractions that other engineers depend on.
- Ability to move from a blank document to a production deployment with minimal oversight.
- High ownership and strong engineering judgment.
- Willingness to write code every day and continue doing so.
- Build and maintain the core platform services that power Pallet’s AI systems and developer workflows.
- Design and implement authentication, authorization, secrets management, and access control systems.
- Build infrastructure that operates reliably across regions and environments with clear isolation boundaries and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling so engineers can understand and debug production systems.
- Develop internal platforms and abstractions that allow product engineers to move quickly without compromising security or reliability.
- Partner with AI and product engineering teams to support model training, evaluation, and inference infrastructure.
- Identify systemic risks and eliminate categories of operational, security, and reliability problems.
- Own projects from architecture through production rollout.
- Experience at an early-stage startup helping define foundational technical decisions.
- Experience building multi-region or highly available systems.
- Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or model-serving platforms.
About the company
Pallet (Trypallet.com) provides a Transportation Management System (TMS) that automates and streamlines transportation and warehousing operations. It reduces manual data entry, optimizes routes, and automates billing. The platform integrates with customers' systems via API, EDI, or automatic PDF reading to ensure accurate billing and charge capture. It offers real-time driver location visibility through ELD integration and a mobile app that lets workers digitize tasks. The business runs on a subscription model with optional premium features and service charges. Compared with competitors, Pallet combines end-to-end TMS for transportation and warehousing with flexible integrations, automated billing, real-time visibility, and field-accessible mobile tooling in one platform. Its goal is to help logistics companies, warehouses, and other businesses with significant transportation needs improve operational efficiency, reduce labor costs, and scale logistics management as demand grows.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$48M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- May 2025 Series B from General Catalyst brought Pallet total funding to $50 million.
- Pallet claims Lineage automated 2 million tasks at over 99% accuracy.
- Pallet's 2026 platform launch targets exception-heavy freight work with immediate ROI.
What critics are saying
- HappyRobot and Vooma are better-funded direct rivals stealing broker and 3PL deals.
- Legacy TMS vendors like McLeod, Trimble, and project44 control sticky enterprise workflows.
- If pilots stall after 2026, Pallet's AI workforce story collapses into generic automation.
What makes Pallet unique
- Pallet's 2026 Forge compresses logistics agent deployment from six months to six weeks.
- CoPallet runs inside TMS, WMS, ERP, email, and legacy AS400 systems.
- Named customers like Lineage, STG Logistics, and Mallory Alexander validate enterprise adoption.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Professional Development Budget
- Commuter Benefits
- Home Office Stipend