Manager of Engineering, Platform Science
Site Reliability Engineering
$134.6-200k
More information about location
Telematics and trucking fleet management platform
Open for applications
Telematics and trucking fleet management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$134.6-200k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To modernize enterprise trucking fleets to meet changing regulatory and consumer demands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles
- 2+ years in a leadership or management position
- Proven expertise with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, FluentD, Jenkins, and Docker
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD and GitOps practices
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to track and prioritize multiple projects, requests, and initiatives effectively
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager will lead a high-performing team that ensures system reliability, scalability, and efficiency while championing SRE principles across the organization
- This role involves coaching the team, promoting best practices, and enabling development teams to deliver observable, maintainable, and production-ready applications
- The SRE Manager oversees multiple projects, requests, and initiatives while maintaining clear communication and keeping the team aligned and productive
- Recruit, train, and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers to deliver operational excellence
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and adherence to SRE principles like SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness
- Standardize and train development teams on observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
- Enhance developer and release workflows using CI/CD best practices, GitOps methodologies, and tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Docker
- Drive application and system resilience through chaos engineering, load testing, and automation
- Collaborate with teams to define SLIs, SLOs, and manage error budgets
- Manage on-call rotation schedules, optimize alerting processes, and ensure 24/7 production application support
- Serve as the escalation point for incident resolution, providing guidance and technical expertise
- Build tools, dashboards, and processes to improve incident response, production health, and system reliability
- Conduct quarterly "State of the Service" reviews to assess performance, sustainability, and risks
- Track and prioritize multiple initiatives while ensuring the team stays focused and aligned with organizational goals
- Maintain detailed documentation on team projects, requests, policies, and best practices
- Communicate effectively across teams, departments, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and a clear understanding of SRE initiatives
- Evangelize SRE practices across the organization and ensure consistent adoption of reliability-focused processes
Our take
The American commercial fleet industry is experiencing some innovative changes, with tech startups aiming to resolve historic inefficiencies in route setting and capacity loading. Trucks of the future will require additional solutions for software management, driver displays, and network connectivity. Despite this, an integrated solution for all of these features is currently missing from the market.
Platform Science develops trucking connectivity solutions that unify many modern improvements into a single platform. While the company develops its own tools, its unique selling point is its customisable dashboard, which unifies existing software stacks to bring everything together as an all-in-one logistics freight control centre.
Platform Science's product is highly regarded for improving the driving experience and is in use by major fleets including Schneider, Western Express and Velocity. Its upward trajectory is set to continue after being awarded $125 million in Growth Capital in 2024, which will accelerate its innovations in the trucking software sector.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2024
$125m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$115m
SERIES C
Total funding: $359.9m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits (some plans for employees are 100% covered by Platform Science)
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- 401k matching
- Investment in your professional growth in the company
- Wellness programs
- Life and disability insurance
- Six weeks of paid parental leave
Company values
- One Team - We proudly welcome people of various backgrounds, abilities, and perspectives to join us in creating a better road for the future
- Resiliency - Work with a team that thinks outside the box to come up with innovative solutions
- Empathy - Know your feelings are valid and valued by the people on your team and within the company
- Thinking - Feel confident sharing your ideas with others and encourage your teammates to openly express their thoughts
- Transparency - Strive for open, honest communication with your fellow team members to establish a mutual sense of trust
Company HQ
University City, San Diego, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jack Kennedy
(CEO & Co-Founder)Jack served in the US Navy for 5 years before working at the Department of Defense and working in Management Consulting for HighPoint Associates. After roles at Fox Networks, News Corp, and Qualcomm, they founded Platform Science as CEO in January 2016.
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