Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability - Flock Freight｜Meet.jobs

In the past three years, Flock Freight has grown 25 times in size and has become one of the largest startups in San Diego. We’ve done some of our best work in the midst of a global pandemic and even hired over 50 new team members during the crisis.

Whether we’re logging on from home or from the office, our mission remains the same: To reinvent North America’s $400-billion freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling. We’re using our proprietary technology to guarantee shared truckload service, the faster, safer, greener — just better — way to ship.

As the first and only company in the freight-shipping space to earn a B Corp certification, we’re pleased to provide shared truckload service, which reduces our industry’s carbon footprint. Our commitment to do the right thing doesn’t stop at the environment though; we’re tackling initiatives in many areas to build an inherently sustainable business model and a high-performance, high-care culture.

Our team and our investors are extremely passionate about our pledge to use shipping as a force for good. SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures) recently invested millions in our Series B round of funding, validating our vision to transform the freight industry.

This pursuit would be nothing without our brilliant people, who obsess over growing our customer base, developing our carrier network, and improving our technology platform.

About the role:

We are looking for a motivated Engineer to own our back and front-end services and infrastructure components. You will be working closely with our software engineers to ensure frictionless delivery and operation of product functionality.

The Infrastructure Engineering team is a mission-critical engineering team at Flock Freight which is in charge of driving technological innovation at Flock Freight by designing and data platforms across our organization. The Infrastructure team tackles scalability issues as well as driving the roadmap to ensure the platform will continue to empower the business as it grows.

Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Improve visibility, resiliency, capacity, and performance of our platform
• Develop our deployable architecture through Terraform on GCP and AWS
• Build internal tools to increase engineering productivity and grow our DevOps culture
• Grow visibility into our platform by designing and integrating monitoring solutions
• Collaborate with software engineers to ensure new features and functionality will be supported by our infrastructure and validate their scalability, reliability, and security requirements
• Participate in the full SDLC in a fast-paced, dynamic, truly agile workflow
• Work both independently and in a highly collaborative environment
• Apply modern open source tools and frameworks where appropriate

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, or equivalent
• 3+ years in a Linux-based large-scale systems role
• Enthusiasm to tackle challenging problems - if you see something broken you can’t help but try to fix it
• Developer background with experience in two or more of Java, Python, Node.js or Go

Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Istio and other cloud native frameworks
• Experience maintaining infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Chef or Puppet
• Experience with monitoring technologies like NewRelic, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of programming languages, especially Java or Python
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (REST, load balancing, HTTP(S), authentication)
• Designing mission critical, scalable, transparent and fault tolerant infrastructure
• Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills
• End-to-end debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring

Flock Freight is proud to hire, promote, and retain talent from a diverse candidate pool. We value the skills of people from various backgrounds, realizing each individual’s unique perspective makes our team better. Committed to creating an environment that’s fair and inclusive, we fill open positions based on qualifications, merit, and business need.