About the Role
Baton is Ryder’s in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Baton’s mission is to enable supply chain on autopilot. We operate at startup speed with Fortune 500 reach.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing Production Support Engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, empathy, and continuous improvements.
- Build and execute hiring, onboarding, and career development plans, establishing clear pathways for growth.
- Create structured onboarding programs to accelerate context-building on Baton's products, tech stack, and business logic.
- Foster deep integration between PSE and core engineering teams, breaking down silos and enabling knowledge sharing.
- Design and implement comprehensive runbooks, processes, and operational documentation.
- Establish and manage SLAs and key metrics (uptime, response time, resolution time, CSAT), driving continuous improvement through data.
- Own customer and operator communication during incidents, ensuring clear, timely, and empathetic updates during outages and degradations.
- Leverage customer insights, telemetry, and support trends to proactively detect issues, automate solutions, and advance support tooling.
- Partner with Engineering to validate new features, run bug bashes, create E2E/integration tests in response to incidents, and support pre-onboarding QA for customer migrations.
- Define the team’s charter, transforming Production Support towards a hybrid Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Technical Solutions Engineering model.
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to influence platform reliability, observability tooling, and self-service capabilities—ensuring Baton's infrastructure can scale to support Ryder's 50K+ customers.
- Define and execute a roadmap toward 24x7 coverage, reducing external help desk dependencies as the business scales.
- Establish processes for the PSE team to take on customer-specific technical solutions, configuration changes, and lightweight operational fixes—protecting engineering bandwidth for strategic roadmap work.
- Champion exceptional customer experiences: Use incident trends and customer feedback to drive platform improvements that prevent future issues and increase customer satisfaction.
- Manage and administer Baton's core IT systems including Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, related productivity tools, MDM, office A/V, and our office internet/WiFi.
- Develop and implement strategies for bridging Baton and Ryder systems where appropriate, including SSO, identity management, and cross-platform workflows.
- Act as primary technical liaison with Ryder's enterprise IT team, navigating policies, security requirements, and integration opportunities.
- Build relationships with Ryder IT leadership to advocate for Baton's needs while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
- Evaluate opportunities to migrate Baton systems to Ryder's enterprise platforms where it makes business and technical sense.
- Create and maintain policies, procedures, and documentation for Baton's IT environment that are aligned with Ryder’s security and compliance policies.
- Provide hands-on IT support to Baton employees.
- Identify opportunities for automation and integration, partnering with engineering teams as needed to execute on these opportunities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in IT, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- 5+ years of experience managing and scaling production support teams in high-growth B2B SaaS environments where reliability, compliance, and customer SLAs are non-negotiable
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise IT systems (Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, MDM, SSO/identity, office A/V/networking)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, DataDog, etc.)
- Strong program management skills to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive projects to completion
- Strong change-management skills, with a track record of rolling out new systems with minimal disruption and high employee adoption
- Experience navigating enterprise procurement, security, compliance, and change-control processes
- Comfort navigating large, matrixed organizations (experience working across multiple teams, getting alignment, and influencing without authority)
- Deep empathy for employees and customers, with commitment to delivering exceptional support experiences even under pressure
- Experience with QA or test automation
- Experience building or managing 24x7 support operations
- Experience transitioning support teams toward SRE or Technical Solutions Engineering models
- Hands-on experience administering both Microsoft 365/Teams/Azure and Google Workspace/Slack/AWS environments and making them play well together
- Experience with enterprise security and compliance policy definition and implementation
- Experience in logistics, supply chain, or freight technology
Skills
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- AWS
- Microsoft 365
- Teams
- Azure
- MDM
- SSO/identity
- office A/V/networking
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Sentry
- DataDog
- program management
- change management
- procurement
- security
- compliance
- change-control
- QA
- test automation
- SRE
- Technical Solutions Engineering
Location
- Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience in IT, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- 5+ years of experience managing and scaling production support teams
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000- $230,000
Benefits
- Competitive Base Salary + Cash Bonus Structure
- Annual Company Bonus + Long Term Incentive Plan
- 401k with Matching
- Hybrid Work Schedule
- Hyper-Stable, publicly traded Enterprise
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Health Coverage
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
- Collaborative, Fun, and Tech Forward office in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
About the Company
- Baton is Ryder’s in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics.
- With $10B in freight under management, our technology reaches every part of the U.S. economy.
- We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers—including some of the world’s most well-known brands—to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
- Our work includes everything from customer-facing software to the data platform that will power the next era of innovation at Ryder.
- Baton’s mission: enable supply chain on autopilot.
- Ryder acquired Baton in 2022 to power its next wave of digital products.
- We operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach.
- If you have a passion for solving complex problems and creating impact for the engine of the American economy, you’ll love it here.
