Staff Platform Engineer

About TruckSmarter

Trucking powers the American economy moving 71% of the nations freight and representing nearly $900 billion in annual spend. Yet despite its scale the industry still runs on fragmented systems phone calls emails tribal knowledge and manual coordination. TruckSmarter is changing that starting with the people at the center of it all: truck drivers and small carriers.

Were a team of fewer than 25 building Dispatch an AI-powered operating layer for freight. Think Claude Code for trucking. Dispatch helps carriers navigate a constantly changing freight market reason through complex tradeoffs and execute operational workflows on their behalf.
The product is live drivers are using it and were now focused on making Dispatch dramatically smarter and more capable.

The Role

Were looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to build and own the foundation that everything at TruckSmarter runs on. This is a high-ownership high-impact role on a team of fewer than 15 engineers where youll define and evolve core systems drive company-wide developer velocity and architect infrastructure that supports both our product and our growing AI workloads.

Youll operate across the full infrastructure stack from setting direction on deployment pipelines and observability frameworks to leading security and reliability strategy and mentoring engineers across the team. At our size your decisions set long-term technical direction and have immediate visible impact on both the product and how the team operates.

What Youll Do

• Define the architectural direction for our core platform including application frameworks abstractions and the systems that every engineer at TruckSmarter depends on

• Set the standard for how we build deploy and operate software across the engineering org

• Build and maintain reliable infrastructure across AWS (ECS Fargate RDS S3 WAF Redshift DMS) using IaC (CDK Terraform)

• Define and automate deployment pipelines CI/CD and observability frameworks

• Lead security initiatives to ensure compliance harden systems and improve access controls

• Drive incident response and postmortem culture to increase resilience and operational excellence

• Mentor engineers across the team on reliability automation and performance not just within platform

What Were Looking For

• 7 years building and scaling production infrastructure including setting architectural direction for an engineering org

• Deep background in AWS (ECS RDS VPC S3 IAM WAF) and IaC (CDK CloudFormation Terraform or similar)

• Comfortable with TypeScript and or similar backend ecosystems

• Proven ability to establish foundational platform decisions that serve as a basis for other engineers development

• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across teams without relying on org structure

• Experience at a fast-moving startup where youve had to balance long-term architecture with short-term velocity

• Demonstrated experience in lieu of a formal degree is absolutely fine

Working Model

We work in-person 5 days a week at our downtown San Francisco office. We believe the best products get built when people are in the same room. Fast feedback loops real collaboration and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. If thats how you do your best work youll fit right in.

We Offer

• Full health dental and vision coverage

• Daily catered lunch provided in-office plus dinner covered for anyone working past 6:00pm

• Commuter benefits

• Flexible PTO

• 401k

• Commuter benefits

We would love to have you be a part of something special and are excited to review your application.

Required Experience:

Staff IC