Senior Platform Engineer

About this role

ABOUT TRUCKSMARTER Trucking powers the American economy, moving 71% of the nation’s 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. We’re 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 we’re now focused on making Dispatch dramatically smarter and more capable. 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 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. Fast feedback loops, real collaboration, and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. If that's how you do your best work, you'll 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 for you to join us on this journey and are excited to review your application!