Senior Authorization Software Engineer

About the Company

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. Our mission is to increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating manual workflows through cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• 6+ years of software, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and track record of shipping production systems
• Experience building security-sensitive systems (auth, secrets management, or infra security)
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, and distributed systems
• Experience designing platforms or tooling for other engineers
• Ability to move from a blank document to production deployment with minimal oversight
• High ownership and strong engineering judgment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an early-stage startup defining foundational technical decisions
• Experience building multi-region or highly available systems
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or model-serving platforms

Benefits

• Health, Vision, and Dental benefits
• Flexible PTO
• Life and Accidental Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Coverage
• Generous salary and equity
• 401k option
• Paid parental leave
• Yearly learning and development stipend
• Commuter and Uber ride stipends
• Daily catered lunches and monthly happy hours