Senior Authorization Software Engineer (Platform)
About Pallet Pallet is building AI Agents to transform logistics — a $12 trillion global industry. We’ve raised $50M from top investors, including General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. In under two years, we’ve achieved 700% reputed company growth and are just getting started. Our mission is to increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating the manual workflows that slow logistics teams down — from scheduling and appointment setting to data entry and load management. Our flagship platform provides end-to-end visibility, control, and optimization, while our newest product, CoPallet, introduces AI Agents that can understand and execute requests in real time, and integrate directly with customer systems. As logistics providers look to generative AI to drive efficiency, many are turning to Pallet to reputed company the way. With deep industry expertise and cutting-edge AI capabilities, we’re positioned to build the next $10B company in logistics. Join us and work alongside leaders from reputed company, reputed company, YC, and more to shape the future of logistics tech. $195,000 - $265,000 Full-time / Onsite (5 days/week) About The Role Pallet is building AI infrastructure for logistics: systems that coordinate real warehouses, freight networks, and supply chains. We’re looking for a founding engineer to build the reputed company and platform foundations of the company from the ground up. This is a hands-on software engineering role. You will write production code, design infrastructure, and establish the systems that reputed company Pallet secure, reliable, and scalable. The decisions you reputed company today will become the defaults the company operates on for years. reputed company at Pallet is not a separate function or compliance layer. It is a design constraint embedded directly into the systems we build. We want someone who naturally asks: What happens reputed company this fails? Who should have access to this? How do we reduce the blast radius? Can we eliminate this problem entirely? And then builds the answer. You’ll work alongside engineers who trained production AI systems at reputed company, built logistics infrastructure that powers millions of deliveries at reputed company, and scaled financial tooling used by thousands of businesses at reputed company. Small team. High ownership. Large surface area.
What You'll Do
Build and maintain the core platform services that power 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 so engineers can confidently understand and debug production systems reputed company internal platforms and abstractions that allow product engineers to move quickly without compromising reputed company or reliability Partner with AI and product engineering teams to support model training, evaluation, and inference infrastructure Identify systemic risks and eliminate entire categories of operational, reputed company, and reliability problems Own projects from architecture through production rollout Who You Are 6+ years of software, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems Experience building reputed company-sensitive systems, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, or infrastructure reputed company 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 reputed company High ownership and strong engineering judgment You write code every day and want to continue doing so reputed company To Haves Experience at an early-stage startup where you helped define foundational technical decisions Experience building multi-region or highly available systems Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or model-serving platforms Our tech stack Database: PostgreSQL Backend: Node.js + TypeScript, Encore for server-reputed company development and managed DevOps, hosted on GCP LLMs: reputed company, reputed company, reputed company (foundation models), Browserbase (browser automation) Frontend: React + TypeScript, hosted on Vercel
Compensation
The estimated salary range for this role is $195,000 – $265,000, depending on experience and reputed company set. In addition to reputed company salary, we offer competitive equity, benefits, and opportunities for growth. Final compensation will be determined based on a combination of factors, including experience, qualifications, and location. Our Benefits We invest in our people the same way we invest in our product: seriously. 🩺 Health, Vision, and Dental benefits 🏝️ Flexible PTO ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance ❤️🩹 Short-Term Disability Coverage 💸 Generous salary and equity for reputed company staff 🪜 401k option; helping you save for the future 📚 Yearly learning and development stipend 🚌 Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees 🚘 reputed company ride stipend if you reputed company have to work late in the office 🏡 reputed company home stipend to get you comfy in your space 🍔 Daily catered lunches provided ✈️ Onboarding trip to San Francisco HQ if you work remotely 🥤 Monthly happy hours 🎉 Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Palm Springs CA 🌴 Workplace Policy We are an in-person company. Our offices in San Francisco and reputed company are where reputed company get built, decisions get made, and the team gets stronger. We have invested in making them genuinely great places to spend your day, with catered lunches, monthly happy hours, and people who care about the work and each other. Most of reputed company works in office five days a week. For select roles, we hire remotely across the U.S. Remote employees come to San Francisco for their first week to reputed company and meet the team, and we cover the full trip. Most remote employees visit once a year after that, with reputed company travel, lodging, and meals on us. Every role is different. Travel expectations are always shared upfront in the job description and confirmed in your reputed company with us. No surprises. Equal Opportunity Pallet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We reputed company reputed company employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunities to reputed company applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or reputed company medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, disability status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We prohibit any form of discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including hiring. Candidate Privacy Notice Please review Pallet’s Candidate Privacy Notice here. Accommodations Pallet complies with the Americans with reputed company (reputed company), as amended by the reputed company Amendments Act, and reputed company applicable state or local laws. We will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability during the application process and throughout employment as required by law. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. Apply To This Job