Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Via, you’ll work within our core R&D center as a member of our Platform team. You’ll be part of a team of developers and devops engineers, directly contributing to our product by using cutting-edge technologies. You’ll take a critical part in our mission to shape the future of transportation, affecting tens of thousands of riders daily worldwide.
The Platform Group is a cross-functional group dedicated to building and maintaining the robust foundation on which Via operates. This team is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, shared services and tools that power our development and production environments.
What You'll Do:
- Define infrastructure and standards for engineering teams across the company.
- Design, implement and deliver services and tools for running infrastructure at scale.
- Research and recommend new technologies for our shared platform.
- Develop a deep understanding of the software and architecture at Via.
- Build CI/CD automation and templates with GitLab.
- Build, maintain and operate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot mission-critical services, automating remediation to prevent recurrences.
- Work closely with partner teams across the company to enable success.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of experience building robust backend or full-stack software systems.
- 3+ years experience maintaining efficient production systems at scale or maintaining production environments (e.g. Devops/SRE).
- Expertise with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Experience with networking, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Commitment to a collaborative distributed environment imbued with professionalism, integrity, passion, and accountability.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable
- Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000 per year
- We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching.
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive.
Our teams of worldclass engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more.
If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
Ready to join the ride?
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
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Via San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, California, United States, 94112
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