Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

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Please note: This will be a 1-year contract role. The position must overlap with Eastern
Time hours (IST + 9:30) due to the highly collaborative nature of the job. Typical working
hours are 2:00 pm – 11:00 pm IST.
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We are seeking a driven Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build, and maintain the core
platform that powers our SaaS products in the freight and logistics industry. In this role, you will
work across application infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud systems, observability, and performance
engineering to ensure our PHP/Laravel services, and the platform around them, are scalable,
reliable, and efficient.
You’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture of our platform, modernizing legacy systems,
improving developer experience, mentoring engineers, and enabling our teams to deliver
high-quality software quickly and safely. If working with huge amounts of geospatial data, route
optimization, and high-scale distributed systems that help freight move across North America
excites you, we want to talk. We are also exploring machine learning and large language
models as we continue to build exciting new features for our customers.
Responsibilities
● Design, build, and evolve the core platform that supports our Laravel monolith and
microservices ecosystem.
● Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and observability across our
systems.
● Develop internal tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines to enhance developer
productivity.
● Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to design platform-friendly services
and APIs.
● Evaluate, introduce, and standardize new technologies, patterns, and architectural
approaches.
● Lead performance optimization efforts across application and infrastructure layers.
● Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, from cloud infrastructure to
application behavior.
● Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of strong engineering practices and
continuous improvement.
● Contribute to the modernization of legacy systems and the migration toward more
scalable cloud-native patterns.

Requirements
● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
● Proven experience as a Senior Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Senior
Software Engineer supporting production systems at scale.
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, and platform reliability.
● Experience supporting PHP/Laravel or similar back-end ecosystems (Symfony, Node,
Go, etc.).
● Strong experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and performance
optimization.
● Hands-on cloud experience with AWS.
● Familiarity with platform-level best practices: scalability, service performance, resiliency,
monitoring, and security.
● Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on root-cause analysis and long-term
solutions.
● Ability to design and implement secure, scalable, high-performance services and
infrastructure.
● Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or container orchestration.
● Knowledge of serverless technologies (Lambdas, Fargate).
● Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
Nice to Have (Not Required)
● Strong MySQL or PostgreSQL query optimization experience.
● Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, logging, or observability tools
(OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
● Front-end knowledge (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.
● Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub profile.
Success Measures
A Senior Platform Engineer will be successful in this role when they:
● Communicate openly, honestly, and collaboratively across teams.
● Gain confidence navigating and understanding the platform end-to-end.
● Take ownership of the planning and delivery of major platform initiatives, representing
Engineering while partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership.
● Contribute across the entire stack and support developers in delivering high-quality
features.
● Show strong systems thinking and thoroughness in diagnosing platform issues,
balancing team needs with long-term reliability.
● Identify and champion opportunities for platform improvements, modernization, and
automation.

About Us: DAT Freight & Analytics
The transportation and logistics industry is at a major inflection point; brokers, carriers, and
shippers alike are undergoing a massive digital transformation. At Trucker Tools, we are on a
mission to empower freight brokers and carriers by enabling them to find, book, and track freight
with efficiency and build enduring relationships to grow their businesses. Our mobile app
improves the lives of truck drivers by helping them book loads and find the best fuel prices,
parking and routes, all in a single app. We’re the #1 downloaded app in transportation, with
1.7M+ downloads and 250K+ carriers that use us every week. Our tracking platform helps
brokers get accurate real time visibility into their loads with the highest tracking success rates in
the industry. Our freight matching platform gives brokers real time access to clean capacity from
250K carriers at their fingertips so they cover more loads with less work. We’re been recognized
across the industry as a leader in innovation in transportation and logistics, by platforms
including FreightWaves, FreightTech100, and Gartner. We’re backed by Alpine Software Group
(alpinesg.com), a leading software private equity firm that buys and grows world class vertical
SaaS businesses. We’re hitting an inflection point in our trajectory and grew triple digits in the
last year. Our team includes team members from leaders in tech, finance and logistics, including
Uber, J.P. Morgan, DAT, UPS, Nolan Transportation Group, GlobalTranz, and Axle Payments.