Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

About the role

A little about us…Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations worldwide manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market, and we're leading the charge with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $450M in our Series D funding round in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!

Who You Are

• Our ideal candidate is an Infrastructure Engineer experienced in scaling Ruby on Rails applications, with a passion for optimization and performance improvements.
• You bring a strong background in Site Reliability and Infrastructure Engineering for Rails applications.
• You follow Agile and DevOps principles, can effectively influence teams to achieve goals, and demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills in our fast-paced environment.

Your Impact

As a Senior Platform Engineer on Fleetio's Platform Engineering team, you will:

• Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Manage and scale a Ruby on Rails stack
• Implement monitoring tools to improve observability
• Perform code review of new features to ensure they meet performance requirements
• Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
• Plan for the growth of, optimize, and automate Fleetio's Infrastructure
• Partner with feature engineering teams to help them build, deploy, and operate their features safely and efficiently
• Respond to reliability and security incidents, from triage and mitigation through post-incident follow-up

Your Experience

• 5+ years of AWS Experience
• 3+ years Kubernetes Experience
• Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
• Deep understanding of cloud network fundamentals (routing, firewalls, load balancers, CDNs, VPCs, etc.)
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or an equivalent web application framework
• Expert at profiling and benchmarking source code
• Effective at code review, and identifying potential performance problems before they reach production
• Experience with Datadog or other APM tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Considered a Plus

• Experience with distributed event and data stores, such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, and TimescaleDB
• You know a thing or two about the fleet management industry
• Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive work and accelerate infrastructure projects

Benefits

• Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)
• Vision insurance
• Incentive stock options
• 401(k) match of 4%
• PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)
• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks paid)
• FSA & HSA options
• Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
• Community service funds
• Professional development funds
• Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
• Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly
• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
• Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks (BHM only)
• Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-Remote

• This application is not intended to and does not create a contract or offer of employment. Employment with Fleetio is at will.
• If you have a disability or a special need that requires an accommodation to fill out the online application, please let us know by calling.