Who we are:
Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.
Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.
The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.
With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.
Meet the team:
The Developer Platform team as a part of Software Platform is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that enables all developers to track, build, deploy and operate our software. From the build system everyone uses, to the tools used to submit and deploy changes, to the cloud infrastructure they use to operate it - we support the entire development experience. The Developer Platform team forges the tools that empower the entire software engineering organization while working with engineers from almost every team.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure: Lead the design, implementation, & maintenance of scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Infrastructure as Code: Automate deployment, configuration, & management processes to improve efficiency & reliability.
- Cloud Operations, Optimization, & Scaling: Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, monitoring system performance, & optimizing resource utilization. Develop scaling strategies to accommodate growing workloads and keeping costs low.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud environments follow security best practices and compliance requirements. Implement and maintain security controls, conduct regular audits, & respond to security incidents.
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design & implement high availability & disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity. Conduct regular testing of disaster recovery plans.
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to identify and implement improvements within the cloud infrastructure to align with business needs.
- Observability: Design and implement observability and alerting systems to track down outages & monitor trends.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong working experience with AWS Environments
- Deep Expertise in Kubernetes, including on-premises deployment and management using core OSS applications such as: CoreDNS, ExternalDNS, Karpenter, Kyverno, Tetragon, Traefik
- Proficiency in infrastructure with IaC tooling, preferably Terraform
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.
- Strong in scripting / programming languages such as Make, Bash, Python, & Golang.
- Knowledge of on-call support processes, incident management and monitoring tooling.
- Familiar with developing infrastructure provisioning pipelines with CI/CD tooling such as Buildkite & ArgoCD
- Experience building out observability & alerting systems with OpenTelemetry and vendors like Honeycomb
Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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