Staff Platform Engineer
Lead the architecture and scaling of Catena’s real-time telematics data platform, ensuring sub-second API responses while integrating millions of vehicle data feeds across hundreds of ELD providers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience in telematics, IoT, logistics, fintech, or insurance data: anywhere the data has physical-world ground truth and someone makes a money decision on it
- Time-series or geospatial data at scale: geofencing, map matching, trip and stop inference, H3 or similar indexing
- Multi-tenant delivery patterns: Per-tenant credential isolation, consent-scoped access (OAuth)
- Experience building against many third-party APIs at once, where you control neither the schema nor the uptime
- Working in a SOC 2 environment, or helping get a company there
Full description
About Catena
Catena is the universal API for fleet telematics data. We give insurers, factors, TMS providers, brokers, fintechs, and freight-tech platforms a single integration to access carrier vehicle data across every major ELD and telematics provider, replacing dozens of one-off connections. Carriers opt in through a quick, permissioned flow, and our customers immediately get standardized, real-time data on a clean, normalized layer.
About the Role
At Catena Clearing, you will own the core infrastructure powering our universal telematics data platform. Catena ingests, normalizes, and delivers high-frequency GPS, sensor, and HOS data from millions of vehicles across hundreds of distinct ELD integrations in real time. In this role, you will lead the technical vision for our cloud infrastructure, distributed event pipelines, and developer tooling—ensuring our platform maintains sub-second API response times, fault tolerance, and 99.99% uptime as our data volume explodes.
Responsibilities
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Core Platform Architecture: Lead the long-term technical strategy and architectural roadmap for Catena's high-throughput infrastructure, setting system design standards that balance scale, security, and velocity.
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High-Volume Ingestion & Streaming: Architect and scale distributed event-streaming systems (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka) capable of processing millions of concurrent telemetry pings, location updates, and webhook deliveries without data drop-off.
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Integration Frameworks: Design standardized abstractions, API gateways, and microservice patterns that empower product teams to rapidly build, test, and deploy new ELD and telematics integrations.
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Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Operations: Own our cloud footprint (AWS), container orchestration, and IaC (AWS CDK) to maximize resilience, dynamic scaling, and cloud spend efficiency.
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Observability & Reliability Engineering: Drive company-wide telemetry, distributed tracing, alerting, operational runbooks, and incident management protocols (SLIs/SLOs) to minimize MTTR across all critical data processing paths.
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Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Champion engineering excellence through architectural reviews (RFCs), establish production standards, and actively mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the platform organization.
Qualifications & Tech Stack
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Experience: 8+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years operating in a Staff-level or principal technical leadership capacity.