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 !

More about our team and company:

Fleetio overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXyXTFWbkg

Our careers page: https://www.fleetio.com/careers

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. This role will have a direct impact on our customers, our engineers, and our business by ensuring our applications are highly available, scalable, and performant.

At Fleetio, we foster a culture of 'Product Engineers', where we value and prioritize engineers who enjoy being part of the product discovery process. Our Engineering and Product teams are structured as autonomous PODs that execute within one focal area toward a defined product vision. We strive to deliver easy-to-use software, and our goal as engineers is to quickly and continuously deliver meaningful value to our customers. We've optimized our CI/CD tools and processes to easily get code into our production environments, resulting in an average of 40 deploys per week.

Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations around the world 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 Series D in March of 2025 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation !

More About Our Team and Company

Watch our culture videos: https://fleet.io/culture

Engineering culture, interview process and videos: https://www.fleetio.com/careers/engineering

Fleetio overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlvIbwZT3oU

Fleetio Go overview video: https://www.fleetio.com/go

More about the Fleetio platform: https://www.fleetio.com/features

API docs: developer.fleetio.com

Test drive Fleetio to get an even better feel for what we're building: https://www.fleetio.com/register

This is a remote opportunity and is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

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

Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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 (205) 718-7500.

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