Platform Engineer

Who We Are

Arrive Logistics is a leading transportation and technology company in North America, with plans to continue to significantly grow year over year. Our success is a testament to our remarkable team and what we are building together. We’re committed to providing employees with a meaningful work experience and have established an award-winning culture that supports personal and career development in a fun, casual, and collaborative environment. There has never been a more exciting time to get on board, so read on to learn more and apply today!

Who We Want

A Platform Engineer will be responsible for creating an internal developer platform which improves the efficiency of engineering teams and lowers the cognitive complexity of delivering business value creating solutions for our users. This role requires empathizing with the engineer experience, identifying bottlenecks and pain points, and providing creative solutions to accelerate the work of other engineers. This position requires strong technical skills, collaboration, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment.

What You’ll Do

• Closely works with their team to develop solutions that further Arrive’s internal developer platform.
• Owns what they build; develop, test, deploy, and monitor it.
• Assists with executing and collaborating on medium to large-scale technical solutions with growing independence.
• Builds technical expertise and voice in the organization, increasing their team’s effectiveness by understanding the why behind projects. 
• Collaborates across teams to build solutions that are bigger than just their team’s purview.
• Builds relationships across departments to identify issues proactively and solve them as a team. 
• Creates automation to ensure repeatability and eliminate toil
• Contributes to reusable tooling to abstract complexities of technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and more
• Extends their talents to the rest of the organization by participating in guild talks, standards discussions, and other initiatives that drive us forward.
• Expands their cloud native expertise by deeply understanding our engineering practices, how open source and third party tools can accelerate our processes, and building subject matter expertise in technologies like Kubernetes.
• Practices quality documentation and ensures codebases are left in a comprehensive manner for other team members to use. 
• Participate in an on-call rotation to handle incoming requests and emergent issues for the Platform organization
• Understand the challenges of learning various technologies and design, create, and deliver training materials to help bridge the gap

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in systems, software, platform, site reliability, or DevOps engineering
• 1+ years of experience building or operating cloud applications on a major provider such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP
• Demonstrated experience with CI / CD tools such as Azure DevOps, CircleCi, Github Actions, or similar
• Ability to handle projects end-to-end with a high degree of independence
• Experience in cloud automation using Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform (preferred), Chef, or Puppet
• Capable of communicating technical decisions and design to non technical stakeholders
• Experience writing code in .NET, Java / Kotlin, or Python
• Experience working with distributed and event based architectures
• Experience with containerized workloads and Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems

The Perks of Working With Us

• Take advantage of our comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental coverage.
• Invest in your future with our matching 401(k) program.
• Build relationships and find your home at Arrive through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Enjoy office wide engagement activities, team events, happy hours and more!
• Leave the suit and tie at home; our dress code is casual.
• Work in the booming city of Austin, TX – we are in a convenient location close to the airport and downtown.
• Park your car for free on site!
• Start your morning with a specialty drink from our fully stocked coffee bar, Broker’s Brew.
• Sweat it out with the team at our onsite gym.
• Maximize your wellness with free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program
• Take time to manage your physical and mental health - we offer company paid holidays, paid vacation time and wellness days.
• Receive 100% paid parental leave when you become a new parent.
• Get paid to work with your friends through our Referral Program!
• Get relocation assistance! If you are not local to the area, we offer relocation packages.

Your Arrive Experience

When we say “award-winning culture,” we mean it. We’ve been recognized as a top workplace by Inc. Fast Company, Fortune, and earned Top Workplaces and Great Place to Work, to name a few. We intend on topping many more of those lists in the years to come, but we’re not in it for the trophies. We’re committed to culture because it keeps us connected to each other and invested in our shared success while having a blast along the way. Our employee-founded resource groups create communities within Arrive’s walls, including Women in Logistics, Emerging Professionals, Prisms, Black Logistics Group, Salute and Unidos. 

Notice:

To ensure a safe and transparent interview process, we want to note that Arrive Logistics adheres to strict recruitment practices. Candidates undergo an interview process, and Arrive Logistics does not provide unsolicited job offers. If you have concerns about receiving a fraudulent offer, please contact [email protected] for verification.