Director of Engineering – Platform

You will drive the following areas: platform engineering vision, planning the platform engineering roadmap, setting goals for your team, hiring engineering talent, and driving all platform engineering efforts. You will collaborate closely with other engineering leaders, product managers, and other stakeholders to provide reliable service to our customers and a great developer experience for our developers. You will enable developer productivity and consistent delivery while building up our engineering talent and growing their careers at Fleetio!

If you are an engineering leader with strong technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for providing a great experience for customers and developers, we would love to connect with you!

A little about us… Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations around the world manage their fleet operations. Transportation technology is a hot market and we’re leading the charge, with raving fans and new customers signing up every day. We raised $144M in Series C in June of 2023 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company. Fleetio is also a proud founding member of the Rails Foundation!

This is a remote opportunity and is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate for this role possesses a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, business acumen, and the ability to forge a vision for Fleetio’s Platform Engineering team. You have a solid background in Site Reliability, Infrastructure Engineering/DevOps, Developer Experience and building APIs. Your leadership experience includes successfully managing and inspiring high-performing engineering teams, driving innovation, and fostering a collaborative work culture. You exhibit strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to a fast-paced environment. This role is part of the Engineering Leaders group and will report directly to the VP of Engineering.

Your Impact:

• Partner with the VP of Engineering and the CTO to solidify a vision for Platform Engineering
• Develop a roadmap for key infrastructure engineering efforts in alignment with product engineering efforts and business goals
• Plan and execute strategic initiatives by defining scope, setting timelines, creating project plans, reporting progress, and proactively addressing risks and gaps.
• Drive SRE efforts to provide a highly reliable and performant service to our customers
• Continuously plan, optimize, and scale our infrastructure to support the growth of our platform while managing associated costs and budgets
• Provide an excellent developer experience for our engineers that aids in improving developer productivity and happiness
• Advance, scale and support our API to help meet the needs of external users/developers
• Drive mobile platform engineering work in partnership with the mobile team
• Evaluate and work with vendors associated with platform engineering efforts as necessary
• Conduct post-mortems on incidents that disrupt service to our customers as necessary and provide an incident report
• Drive engineering practices within your team in alignment with our engineering philosophies
• Effectively manage performance of your broader team via regular 1-on-1’s, performance reviews and constructive feedback
• Forecast and recommend hiring needs based on product goals and skillset gaps
• Recruit top engineering talent as needed and ensure high levels of engagement and retention
• Develop future leaders by identifying potential and providing necessary opportunities and support

Your Experience:

• 2+ years of experience leading platform engineering teams as a Director or as a Senior Engineering Manager
• Proven expertise in leading SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering teams
• Excellent at planning and organizing work for multiple streams within the platform engineering team
• Prior experience managing cloud infrastructure spend and optimizing for cost efficiency
• Solid expertise in the latest development, build, test, and deploy practices that drive agility, consistent delivery, and quality
• Strong passion and track record of attracting, developing, and retaining engineers
• Experience utilizing APM tools to monitor and troubleshoot issues as necessary
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Be sure to mention “coffee” in your application so we know you read this

Considered a plus:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge or experience with mobile engineering
• Experience building applications using Ruby-on-Rails, React

Benefits:

• Multiple health/dental coverage options
• Vision insurance
• Incentive stock options
• 401(k) match of 4%
• PTO – 4 weeks
• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Parental leave- birthing parent (12 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks)
• FSA & HSA options
• Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
• Community service funds
• Professional development funds
• Wellbeing fund – $150 quarterly
• Business expense stipend- $125 quarterly
• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
• Monthly catered lunches
• Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks
• Remote working friendly since 2012

Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need

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