Director of Engineering, Motive
Infrastructure and Operations
$229-300k
Fleet management platform for trucks
Job no longer available
Fleet management platform for trucks
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$229-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world’s trucks.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops orgs and managing managers with a strong sense for systems architecture
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross functionally with a strong sense of ownership
- Deep experience with AWS at scale (VPC, IAM, multi‑account, core services, observability, cost optimization)
- High AI fluency – able to evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI) for engineering and ops
- Experience in interfacing with vendors, partners and cost governance
- Experience and strong understanding of databases and data platforms (OLTP and analytics), Data and ML/AI infrastructure
- Proven record running high‑reliability platforms (SLOs, incidents, on‑call, postmortems). Experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar and engineering excellence
- Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility
- Track record of running infrastructure as a product (roadmaps, stakeholder comms, adoption)
- Nice to have
- Background in B2B SaaS or other high‑reliability domains (payments, logistics, safety)
- Leadership of global, distributed teams across time zones
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader who will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering
- You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering
- You will own our cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission‑critical systems
- As an engineering leader you’ll be be called on to lead during critical moments and operate with executives of the company
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company
- Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability, and product leverage
- Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs
- Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (e.g., system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into clear execution plans
- Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure as well as cloud governance
- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization
Our take
Trucking is a huge but fragmented industry that was largely ignored by Silicon Valley until companies such as Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) came along. The integrated fleet management platform acts as air traffic control for trucks, bringing drivers online and into the 21st century.
The company offers both hardware and software solutions to freight companies, allowing them to manage their fleet and keep their drivers safe. One of these solutions is an AI-powered dashcam that detects unsafe driving behavior in real time and instantly alerts the driver.
The platform, which is used by over 120,000 companies, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, received $150 million in VC in 2025. This is being invested in expanding the capabilities of its platform through AI, with a suite of AI-powered fleet tools launching in 2026.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$150m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$190m
SERIES E
Total funding: $567.3m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Obaid Khan
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Studied Political Science and Government at University of California before founding KeepTruckin in 2013.
Shoaib Makani
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Government & Economics at LSE. Analytics Intern at Yahoo. Worked for a year at Google as APMM. Went on to work in Business Development at AdMob.
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