Principal Data Platform Engineer, Motive
$148-226k
Fleet management platform for trucks
Job no longer available
Fleet management platform for trucks
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148-226k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world’s trucks.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years Hands-on software engineering experience
- Backend programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc and proficient in one or more of Python
- Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Experience in designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable software systems and services
- Experience building systems using technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and track record of implementing creative solutions
- Hands on experience with containerized platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
- BS in Computer Science or a related field; Masters preferred
- Excellent verbal and written skills. You collaborate effectively with other teams and communicate clearly about your work
What the job involves
- As a Principal Data Platform Engineer, you will be involved and responsible for full ownership and driving key data platform initiatives and life cycle of the data management including data ingestion, data processing, data storage, querying system, cost reduction efforts towards delivering product features to internal and external Motive customers
- We are looking for a technical leader in the Data Platform area who has built the full data ingestion, transformation and analytics systems over AWS and Kubernetes in multiple companies
- This individual would have faced and solved multiple challenges affecting many feature areas during this process using the best practices
- This individual will be responsible for contributing significantly to drive the Motive’s Data Platform vision
- The Data Platform team works in three areas: 1
- Build scalable systems and services for data ingestion, access, processing and query to enable data driven product features. 2
- Collaborate and work closely with the various stakeholders and our backend product teams to improve and add features to the platform
- Work with other leaders in the Platform area to define and plan out the long term strategy for Data Platform
- Design and develop scalable distributed systems and frameworks for data management
- Focus on addressing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, and work on scaling ingestion pipelines, improving and adding features to ETL framework while maintaining SLAs on performance, reliability, and system availability
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to identify and deliver cross-functional features
- Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle, from design to implementation and delivery
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 series F funding in 2022, which is being used to accelerate its investment in AI, expand its product offerings into spend management, and grow its enterprise capabilities.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
LATE VC
May 2022
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $717.3m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Obaid Khan
(COO)Studied Political Science and Government at University of California before founding KeepTruckin in 2013.
Shoaib Makani
(CEO)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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