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About the Role

Pallet is building AI infrastructure for logistics, seeking a founding engineer to establish the company's security and platform foundations. This hands-on role involves writing production code, designing infrastructure, and creating secure, reliable, and scalable systems. You will work with experienced engineers and have significant ownership in a high-growth startup.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core platform services for Pallet’s AI systems and developer workflows.
• Design and implement authentication, authorization, secrets management, and access control systems.
• Build infrastructure that operates reliably across regions and environments with clear isolation boundaries and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling for production systems.
• Develop internal platforms and abstractions for product engineers.
• Partner with AI and product engineering teams to support model training, evaluation, and inference infrastructure.
• Identify systemic risks and eliminate operational, security, and reliability problems.
• Own projects from architecture through production rollout.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems.
• Experience building security-sensitive systems, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, or infrastructure security.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing platforms, tooling, or abstractions that other engineers depend on.
• Comfortable moving from a blank document to a production deployment with minimal oversight.
• High ownership and strong engineering judgment.
• Writes code daily and wants to continue doing so.
• Experience at an early-stage startup where you helped define foundational technical decisions (Nice to Have).
• Experience building multi-region or highly available systems (Nice to Have).
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or model-serving platforms (Nice to Have).

Skills

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• GCP
• React
• Vercel
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google (foundation models)
• Browserbase

Location

• Onsite (5 days/week)
• Remote (across the U.S.)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite
• Remote

Experience Level

• 6+ years of software, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

• $195,000 - $265,000

Benefits

• Competitive equity
• Health, Vision, and Dental benefits
• Flexible PTO
• Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Coverage
• Generous salary and equity for all staff
• 401k option
• Yearly learning and development stipend
• Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees
• Uber ride stipend if you ever have to work late in the office
• Remote office home stipend
• Daily catered lunches provided
• Onboarding trip to San Francisco HQ if you work remotely
• Monthly happy hours
• Annual Company Offsites

About the Company

• Pallet is transforming logistics, a $12 trillion global industry, with AI Agents.
• Raised $50M from top investors including General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures.
• Achieved 700% revenue growth in under two years.
• Mission: Increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating manual workflows.
• Flagship platform provides end-to-end visibility, control, and optimization.
• CoPallet introduces AI Agents for real-time request understanding and execution.
• Positioned to build the next $10B company in logistics.
• Team includes leaders from Google, DoorDash, and YC.

Equal Opportunity

• Pallet is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Makes all employment decisions based solely on merit.
• Provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, disability status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.
• Prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment.
• Policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.