Platform Engineer

Roadie, a UPS company, is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility and visibility. Reaching 97% of U.S. households across more than 30,000 zip codes — from urban hubs to rural communities — Roadie provides seamless, scalable solutions that meet a variety of delivery needs. 

With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door. 

Our engineers work to create technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. As a Platform Engineer you will focus on creating and maintaining reusable services, components and tools for application delivery in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will be dedicated to improving the developer experience by enabling the engineering team in their efforts to deploy scalable solutions quickly and efficiently. Our ideal candidate is a skilled full stack engineer with prior experience working on platform engineering solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Work on existing systems that allow our engineers to deliver features efficiently, quickly, and reliably 
• Create internal tools to accommodate org-specific workflows, enforce security policies, and maintain compliance with regulatory standards
• Build, maintain and document custom APIs, CLIs, and web UIs that expose the platform’s functionality and reliability 
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of internal toolchains by identifying bugs and solving problems
• Collaborate with software developers, infrastructure engineers, and other stakeholders on cross-functional teams
• Work in a fast-paced environment where we are frequently iterating to support the needs of our product engineers by enhancing our internal apps and processes
• Plan and execute on short-term and long-term engineering goals individually and within the greater technology team
• Apply experience and knowledge of industry best practices to support and continuously improve the performance, efficiency, and maintainability of existing applications

What You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 4+ years experience as a full stack developer or similar role
• 1+ year experience working on platform engineering solutions 
• Experience with Cloud Services – (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud)
• Experience with Version Control Systems (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket)
• Experience with Containerization (e.g. Docker, Podman)
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and ArgoCD
• Monitoring (e.g. New Relic, Sumo Logic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana)
• Experience designing client-side and server-side architecture
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, TypeScript)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. Go, Ruby, C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Be able to write and analyze complex SQL queries

Bonus

• Experience tracking DORA metrics and Platform Engineering KPIs

Why Roadie? 

• Competitive compensation packages 
• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
• 401k with company match
• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!) 
• Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO 
• Monthly 3-day weekends
• Monthly WFH stipend 
• The technology you need to get the job done