Senior Platform Engineer

About the company

TruckSmarter powers the American economy, moving 71% of the nation’s freight and representing nearly $900 billion in annual spend. Despite its scale, the industry still runs on fragmented systems, phone calls, emails, tribal knowledge, and manual coordination. TruckSmarter is changing that with Dispatch, an AI-powered operating layer for freight. 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 we’re now focused on making Dispatch dramatically smarter and more capable.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build and own the foundation that everything at TruckSmarter runs on. This is a high-ownership role on a team of fewer than 15 engineers where you'll architect core systems, drive developer velocity, and build infrastructure that supports both our product and our growing AI workloads. You'll work across the full infrastructure stack, from defining deployment pipelines and observability frameworks to leading security initiatives and mentoring engineers on reliability and performance. At our size, your decisions have immediate, visible impact on the product and the team.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve our core platform architecture, including application frameworks and abstractions powering TruckSmarter's systems
• Build and scale the infrastructure supporting our traditional ML and agentic AI systems
• 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 on best practices in reliability, automation, and performance engineering

Requirements

• 3+ years building and scaling production infrastructure
• Strong background in AWS (ECS, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, WAF) and IaC (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar)
• Comfortable with TypeScript and Node.js or similar backend ecosystems
• Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end and mentor peers
• Experience thriving in fast-moving startup environments where you've had to wear multiple hats
• 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, enabling fast feedback loops, real collaboration, and a team that genuinely enjoys working together.

Benefits

• 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