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