Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence with transformative technology that is reshaping the global supply chain. We are seeking a Platform Engineer to align our backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture. In this senior role, you will lead critical initiatives to modernize our production systems and elevate the entire engineering organization.
What You'll Do
- Align backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture.
- Lead the effort to retire scalability and reliability debt, safely upgrade critical infrastructure, and reduce single-threaded dependencies.
- Drive high-level decisions on testing strategies, validation guardrails, and system design concerns impacting delivery speed and maintainability.
- Modernize and scale existing production systems by applying database-level strategies and platform primitives as architectural tools.
- Elevate the organization by establishing shared practices, aligning terminology, and mentoring senior talent across the engineering team.
- Establish a deep understanding of data systems, latency-sensitive services, and failure modes.
What We're Looking For
- Mastery of performance-sensitive REST APIs, caching strategies, and core distributed systems concepts.
- Expert-level PostgreSQL skills including upgrades, query tuning, replication tradeoffs, and schema evolution, plus advanced SQL.
- Deep experience with Azure and/or AWS and production-grade Kubernetes/Docker.
- Strong production experience in Node.js and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with Observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs), and security hygiene (IAM, secrets management).
Nice to Have
- Experience in logistics, warehouse systems, or robotics-adjacent platforms.
- Ability to reason clearly about multi-regional architectures or advanced data governance.
- Experience driving org-wide standards.
- Prepared to work with the latest applied classical ML and next-gen LLM/VLM AI tooling.
Technical Stack
- REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL
- Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Node.js, Python
Team & Environment
You will join a small, senior group. The autonomy team spans drone autonomy, perception, and MHE Vision, operating across multiple active product lines.
