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Platforms Engineer (Brazil)

Parade


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 16 September 2026 (20 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 14 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Founded in 2015 Parades mission is to democratize the best software and tools at scale for the logistics teams moving trade.

Today we power $6.4B in freight under management and our AI-driven automation has delivered 40100% profit increases for some of the industrys largest and most innovative brokers. With 44 integrations across TMS platforms load boards and carrier networks Parade has become the infrastructure of trust for the freight industry.

By uniting fragmented systems into a single AI-powered capacity management layer Parade is transforming how freight is booked matched and executed.

Why we need you

Were scaling quickly and looking for a Platforms Engineer to architect build and scale the foundational infrastructure that powers logistics around the world.

This isnt just another DevOps or infra role:

  • Youll own and evolve the core platform systems that process millions of carrier quotes and thousands of automated transactions weekly.

  • Youll design infrastructure that enables freight brokers to reach 50% load digitization transforming one of the worlds largest and most operationally complex industries.

  • Youll play a critical role in supporting next-generation AI systems like CoDriver our GenAI-powered suite that accelerates automation from weeks to days.

  • Your work will ensure Parades services scale reliably securely and with exceptional performance as we expand rapidly.

We need strong platform engineering leadership to keep our systems resilient observable and ready for the next phase of growth.

Who are you
  • You are passionate about building reliable high-scale infrastructure and developer platforms.

  • You collaborate closely with backend product and data teams to design systems that enable fast safe and high-quality development across the company.

  • You care deeply about automation observability and repeatable patterns.

  • You communicate clearly across teams and make thoughtful trade-offs between speed cost scalability and reliability.

  • You thrive in environments where you can influence technical direction and uplevel engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications
  • 5 years of experience in platform DevOps SRE or infrastructure engineering roles.

  • Expertise with Kubernetes Docker and running microservices in production.

  • Strong experience with Terraform.

  • Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or another major cloud provider (AWS Azure).

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems queues and async workloads (e.g. Google Pub/Sub Celery RabbitMQ).

  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing deployment workflows.

  • Strong monitoring/observability experienceSentry New Relic Google Cloud Monitoring logging pipelines alerting SLOs.

  • Solid understanding of networking security secrets management and environment orchestration.

  • Strong communication skills and ability to partner with cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have
  • Experience with Atlantis for Terraform automation.

  • Experience with CircleCI GitHub Actions or FluxCD specifically.

  • Comfortable with Python-based backend systemsframeworks like Django FastAPI etc.

  • Experience with data ETLs ideally with Airflow.

  • Enthusiasm for using AI-powered coding tools (e.g. ClaudeCode GitHub Copilot) to improve development velocity and quality.

About Our Stack
  • Cloud & Infra: GCP Kubernetes Docker Terraform FluxCD CircleCI Atlantis

  • Backend: Python3 Django FastAPI

  • Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL (PostGIS) Redis BigQuery Google Pub/Sub Celery RabbitMQ

  • Frontend: React/NextJS/Typescript

  • Monitoring & Observability: Sentry NewRelic GCP Monitoring Sonar Prometheus

Why Parade
  • Join a small but mighty team (<30 people across the U.S. & Brazil) where your work has immediate and visible impact.

  • Work on industry-defining infrastructure that powers the category Parade invented: Capacity Management.

  • Help scale systems trusted by 75000 weekly active users and 150000 carriers.

  • Partner with a team that customers loveour tools routinely deliver 2050% profit lifts and transform operational efficiency.

  • Thrive in a culture that values autonomy ownership and engineering excellence.

Benefits
  • Fully remote with annual company offsites at fun global destinations.

  • Generous PTO and sick leave.

  • High ownership deep impact and the ability to shape core infrastructure at a fast-growing company.

How to Apply

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  • Share links that best showcase the systems youve built or architected.


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