Senior Platform Developer

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About Radar Black Berry Radar is a rapidly growing IoT platform that enables real-time tracking and analytics for thousands of trailers, containers, and high-value assets across North America. Learn more. Our platform has achieved strong market traction, with a fast-expanding device footprint and a lean, highly skilled engineering team tackling challenges in big data, cloud architecture, and performance optimization as adoption accelerates.

Radar is at a critical inflection point. We’ve established product-market fit, our install base is scaling quickly, and our platform processes more data each month than ever before. We’re investing heavily in next-generation architecture to support the next five years of innovation and growth. Why This Role Matters Every new customer adds more devices, more data, and more opportunities to innovate.

We’re expanding our engineering team to build the next generation of Radar’s cloud platform, focusing on:

• High-volume telemetry ingestion and big data pipelines

• Cloud re-architecture for scalability and resilience

• Advanced reporting and analytics

• API expansion and next-gen customer experiences

• Performance and reliability engineering

• Modern Dev Ops tooling in a microservices environment Our Tech Stack

• Backend:
Node.js, Express, NATS

• Data:
MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

• Analytics:
Flink, Cube.js, Star Rocks, Iceberg

• Cloud: AWS

• Frontend:
React

• Platform:
Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Jenkins What You’ll Do

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads across development, staging, and production environments

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for automated testing, building, and deployment of microservices

• Maintain and improve Jenkins infrastructure, shared libraries, and pipeline templates

• Develop infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform and Helm to automate provisioning and configuration

• Create integrations between Kubernetes and internal systems (monitoring, logging, databases, etc.)

• Administer and optimize Elasticsearch clusters for performance, capacity, and reliability
• Implement and improve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting infrastructure

• Automate operational tasks and eliminate manual toil through scripting and tooling (Python, Bash, Go, etc.)

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize containerization strategies and deployment workflows

• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, optimize resource utilization, and ensure system scalability

• Contribute to security best practices including secrets management, network policies, and access controls

What You Bring

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (deployment, scaling, troubleshooting)

• Strong experience building and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, including writing custom Groovy pipeline code

• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar)

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, container registries, image optimization)

• Solid scripting and automation skills (Groovy, Python, Bash, or Go)

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC)

• Experience administering Elasticsearch clusters in production (indexing strategies, performance tuning, scaling)

• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Git workflows and version control best practices Preferred

• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes operators

• Knowledge of secrets management solutions

• Experience with logging aggregation systems (ELK stack, Fluentd)

• Background with microservices architectures and distributed systems

• Experience with Jenkins shared libraries and advanced pipeline patterns

• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements (network policies, RBAC, pod security)

• Experience with autoscaling strategies (HPA, VPA,…