Senior Platform Engineer

WHO WE ARE GoodShip is the AI engine powering modern transportation networks, empowering transportation teams to optimize spend and service while driving seamless collaboration across internal stakeholders and external partners. GoodShip unifies data from loads, tenders, contracts, real-time tracking, and market benchmarks to deliver a comprehensive, intelligent view of the transportation network. Embedded intelligence proactively recommends the highest-impact opportunities to save money, improve service, and reduce spot exposure. Teams can act instantly by renegotiating rates, refining routing guide logic, triggering carrier performance alerts, or running off-cycle bids and full-network RFPs through purpose-built procurement tools that blend automation and intelligence. The result is a continuously optimized freight network that remains agile and resilient in a dynamic market. We’re backed by A-list venture firms and founders of industry-leading FreightTech companies, and were recently recognized in the TechCrunch AI Disrupters 60. With ample financial backing and strong traction, we’re seeking a driven and experienced Enterprise Sales Director to join us on the ground floor and help bring ultra-modern transportation technology to market. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Platform Engineer (SRE), you will build the internal platform that enables GoodShip's engineering organization to deliver software quickly without sacrificing reliability. You'll improve developer experience, streamline delivery pipelines, strengthen observability, and build the tooling and automation that allows product teams to ship with confidence. This is a highly leveraged engineering role where your customers are other engineers. You'll partner closely across the organization to remove operational bottlenecks, improve engineering productivity, and establish a culture where operational excellence and engineering velocity reinforce one another. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Design the Engineering Platform Design, build, and evolve the internal platform that powers engineering at GoodShip. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, improve deployment workflows, and build self-service tooling that enables engineers to move faster with confidence.

• Improve Developer Experience Partner with engineering teams to identify workflow friction, improve developer tooling and local development environments, streamline deployment workflows, and champion engineering best practices that balance speed, quality, and reliability while further enabling AI-assisted engineering.
• Drive Reliability and Observability Design and implement observability across the platform using modern monitoring tools.

• Strengthen Data Reliability Partner with product engineering to improve the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of the data flowing through the platform.

• Build for Scale Continuously identify opportunities to eliminate bottlenecks, automate manual work, and improve engineering productivity. Help establish the platform, processes, and operational practices that enable GoodShip to scale efficiently as the engineering organization grows.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-quality systems.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production workloads on AWS.
• Demonstrated success building and maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Expertise in building developer tooling, automation, or internal engineering platforms.
• Experience implementing observability using Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience defining operational metrics, SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting strategies.
• A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to identify bottlenecks and improve engineering workflows.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence engineering practices across teams.
• Demonstrated ownership, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Proficiency using AI development tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or Claude as productivity multipliers.
• Experience supporting high-growth SaaS platforms, Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, release automation, PostgreSQL, event-driven architectures, or logistics and supply chain software is a plus.

• 100% employer-paid health benefits.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Company-wide winter break during the December holidays.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Destination team off-sites.

• Highlight any experience building data pipelines or automation tools that ingest and normalize transportation‑related data (loads, tenders, contracts) into Excel‑ready dashboards; bring a sample workbook that shows complex formulas, pivot tables, and Power Query steps you’ve built for logistics analytics.
• In your cover letter and interview, reference GoodShip’s AI‑driven optimization focus: describe a project where you integrated machine‑learning predictions (e.g., cost‑savings or carrier performance scores) into a platform and exported the results to Excel for stakeholder reporting.
• Prepare a short demo (5‑min screen‑share) of a real‑time Excel model you’ve created that visualizes routing‑guide logic or spot‑rate exposure; emphasize how you used dynamic charts, slicers, and VBA/macros to let non‑technical users explore scenarios instantly.
• Show remote‑work credibility: list the collaboration tools you use (e.g., Slack, GitHub, Jira, Zoom) and provide a brief case study of how you coordinated cross‑functional teams (product, data science, carriers) across time zones to deliver a platform feature on schedule.
• Anticipate technical interview questions on scalability and reliability: be ready to discuss how you’d design a micro‑services architecture that feeds transport data into an Excel‑export service while ensuring low latency, fault tolerance, and secure API authentication.
• When salary negotiating, research GoodShip’s typical remote senior‑engineer band (e.g., $150‑$180 k base + equity) and frame your ask around the measurable ROI you’ve generated in past roles (e.g., “saved $2 M annually by automating carrier‑performance alerts”).