Senior Software Engineer: Platform

ppAt Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. /ppThe recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. /ph3bAbout Flexport: /b /h3pAt Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes
- from emerging brands to Fortune 500s
- use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. /ppThe recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. /ph3bSenior Software Engineer: Platform /b /h3pEvery engineer at Flexport ships code that moves real freight across 112 countries. The faster and safer they can do that, the faster the world's supply chains move. The PSI (Platform, Security Infrastructure) team makes this possible: we build the paved path and tooling that hundreds of engineers around the world rely on every day to ship. /ppThis is not a role where you wait for tickets. You'll talk to engineers, dogfood our platform, and find the friction that's slowing us down, and then design and ship the tools to remove that. /ph3bWhat You'll Do /b /h3pYou'll own and evolve the developer platform that powers Flexport engineering. That means: /pulliMaking the best bpaved paths and self-serve tooling /bpossible that make the right thing the easy thing. /liliCreating and supporting developers withb CI/CD pipelines /b (Buildkit, Github Actions), bbuild tooling /b(Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and bartifact repositories /b (Artifactory, ECR, github). /liliOwning and improving the backend and frontend developer experience. /liliActing as the steward of our bGraphQL and gRPC ecosystem /b and make sure our middleware, federation and schema sharing, CLIs, codegen and servers and clients work smooth as butter. /liliEvolving and integrating ourbIAM solutions and primitives /b so that everything is easy and secure by default. /liliMaking sure engineers can easily use and understand ourbcontainer orchestration /b(Kubernetes, ECS) and bobservability stack /b (Openmetrics, Datadog) that engineers rely on to run, understand and debug their services. /li /ulh3bYou Should Have /b /h3ullib5+ years of software engineering experience /b, with time spent building developer platforms, or internal tooling that other engineers depend on. /lilibDeep full-stack instincts /b: you're equally comfortable in a backend service, a frontend build pipeline, a Kubernetes manifest, and a CI configuration. /lilibStrong product instincts applied to internal users /b: you treat engineers as customers, identify what's actually worth building, and measure whether it worked. /lilibExpertise and hands on experience with several of: /ba CI/CD system (Github Actions preferred), a container orchestrator (Kubernetes preferred), build tooling preferably for more than one language, backend-for-frontend (Graphql preferred), service-to-service communication (gRPC preferred), Metrics and artifact storage. /lilibYou take pride in solving tech debt and fixing what’s broken: /byou’ll either fix it, or if a migration is needed you either execute them yourself or make them feel effortless. /lilibAn independent mindset /b: you thrive in ambiguity, find the highest-leverage problems yourself, and don't wait to be told what to do. /lilibExcellent communication /b: you can run a developer interview, write a clear design doc, and make sure everyone understands what’s going on. /lilibA generally helpful attitude /b. Everyone should know you within no-time as the person who gets stuff unblocked, points them in the right direction and makes their work easier. /lilibA drive for impact /b: you are not satisfying until every engineer is productive and confident thanks to your team. /li /ulh3bNice to Have /b /h3ulliExperience in data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA. /liliExperience with AWS. /liliExperi