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# Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Data Platform at Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)

- **Company:** Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)
- **Location:** San Francisco California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baton/jobs/5196180007

## Job description

## Who We Are

[Baton](https://www.baton.io/) is [Ryder](https://www.ryder.com/en-us/about-us)’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.

Role: Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Pod: Data Platform

Location: Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

## Basic Job Details

Job Type: Full Time Work Model: Hybrid Remote Days: Monday & Friday Office Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Platform team, you will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our foundational data systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency. You'll architect data platforms, manage streaming pipelines, optimize cloud infrastructure, and champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code, observability, and system performance.

The Data Platform's scope of impact is expanding faster than any one team can absorb, and this role exists to own that growth. You'll take end-to-end ownership of supply line visibility data integration, connecting the execution platforms operating across Ryder and Baton. Leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and real-time data processing, you'll mentor engineering teams, shape strategic technical direction, and give the organization a single view of its data across both the Baton and Ryder platforms.

## Responsibilities

- Design and Maintain Robust Data Architecture:
- Design, maintain, and optimize our data streaming and messaging architecture as the platform's scope continues to expand.
- Oversee Real-Time Data Streaming Platforms:
- Manage and enhance the real-time data streaming platforms, ensuring robust data ingestion and efficient processing.
- Own Cross-Platform Data Integration:
- Take end-to-end ownership of supply line visibility data integration, spanning third-party, in-house, and Ryder-managed execution platforms.
- Drive Major Integration Initiatives:
- Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale integrations with enterprise supply chain execution systems.
- Simplify and Solve Data Challenges:
- Transform complex data challenges into streamlined, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement:
- Collaborate closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across Baton and Ryder to enhance data-driven decision-making and foster innovative data practices across the organization.

Required Qualifications

- Data Integration Experience:
- Track record in solving real-time data challenges at large-scale enterprises, including common dual-write solutions
- Technical Leadership:
- Technical Leadership and cross-functional collaboration across an org
- Python Proficiency:
- Advanced proficiency coding in python at a Staff level

## Preferred Qualifications

- Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Industry Experience:
- Demonstrated experience or a strong interest in the freight and logistics industry, with an understanding of its data-driven challenges and opportunities.
- Technical Expertise:
- Comprehensive knowledge of modern big data
- 5+ years experience in software development experience
- Infrastructure development experience with big data infrastructure such as Databricks, Kafka, Spark, etc.
- Solid foundation in data analytics and big data technologies, capable of leveraging these skills to drive insights and operational efficiencies.

The Perks

- 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

Compensation Range: The annual base salary range for this position is $260,000 - $350,000*

Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, transferable knowledge, and experience. Note that the above is not the representation of total compensation, which includes our LTI Package as well. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual company performance bonuses.

## Why You Should Join

- Have an immediate impact:
- With Ryder’s existing customer base of 50,000+ companies and an internal headcount of 43,000, the scale and impact of our products will be large and far-reaching, from day one.
- Opportunity to grow and lead in a Fortune 500 company:
- You’ll get to work in a rapidly growing, startup-like environment while having the stability and backing of Ryder and its full executive team.
- Creative, fast-paced environment to solve impactful problems in Supply Chain:
- We’re going to design completely new tools for an industry that hasn’t been rethought in decades. And to do this, we need people who think differently.

## About Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Baton is Ryder’s Silicon Valley-based technology lab that builds AI-powered software to digitize, optimize, and automate supply chain networks for some of the world’s largest brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Ryder System, Inc. / NYSE: R in 2022; operates as a wholly owned innovation lab)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (as a startup); acquired 2022
- **Founders**: Andrew Berberick and Nate Robert

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Transportation & Logistics Technology, Supply Chain Management
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Ryder’s 50,000+ customers, including Fortune 500 consumer goods, retail, and manufacturing brands)
- **Mission/purpose statement**: "Enable supply chain on autopilot."

## Products & Services
- **[RyderShare™](https://baton.io/)**: A real-time collaborative logistics platform that tracks shipments, manages exceptions, and connects supply chain stakeholders through a single-pane view. Includes proactive notifications and full audit trails.
- **AI-Powered Optimization Engine**: A first-of-its-kind platform designed to combat waste in transportation networks by improving routing, scheduling, and dock detention, specifically built to handle seasonality and fluctuating demand.
- **Data Platform & Infrastructure**: The underlying data systems that power the next generation of innovation at Ryder, enabling intelligent planning and execution across the entire fleet.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available for the lab itself. Parent company Ryder System, Inc. reported over $12 billion in annual revenue and has invested $1.3 billion in technology over five years.
- **Key Metric**: Ryder manages **$10B in freight under management**, operates a fleet of **260K+ vehicles**, and Baton’s platform processes **10M shipment loads daily**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Originally backed by 8VC and Maersk Growth (Series A). Now operates fully under Ryder System, Inc.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring (8 open roles in Q3 2024), headcount growing 22% YoY, 120+ RyderShare customers, and a clear mandate from Ryder leadership to prepare the company for the coming AI wave.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Startup speed with Fortune 500 strength**: Teams fully own their roadmap and ship at startup velocity, but with the resources, data, and stability of a $12B industry giant.
- **Unmatched data moat**: Access to the largest full-service commercial truck fleet in the U.S. and a decade of supply chain data provides a training ground for AI models that no pure-play startup can match.
- **Elite engineering talent**: The team includes engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (led the Mars Rover program), Apple, Meta, OpenAI, Tesla, and Google.
- **FreightTech credibility**: Previously ranked #4 in FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 (ahead of Uber Freight and Tesla).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first platform**: Baton’s primary mandate is to build and deploy a new generation of AI-powered digital platforms and optimization engines for Ryder’s customers.
- **Network digitization**: Continue expanding RyderShare’s capabilities to connect more shippers, carriers, and warehouses, eliminating waste and reducing detention.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively recruiting the brightest software engineers, product managers, and data scientists from top-tier tech companies to solve the hardest problems in logistics.

## Why Work Here
- **Best of both worlds**: "Operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach" — rare autonomy and impact without the risk of a pre-revenue startup.
- **Hard problems, massive scale**: Work on challenges that directly affect the engine of the American economy, with a dataset covering millions of daily shipments.
- **High-caliber peers**: Work alongside former NASA engineers, ex-OpenAI researchers, and alumni from Apple, Meta, Google, and Tesla.
- **Culture of curiosity**: The team describes itself as people with a "shared curiosity for how things move through the world."
- **Hybrid/In-office**: Based in San Francisco (Silicon Valley) with a strong in-person collaboration ethos.
- **Career growth**: Direct ownership of product roadmaps and the chance to shape a brand-new lab that is central to Ryder’s digital transformation strategy.

## Sources
1. [baton.io](https://baton.io/)
2. [Greenhouse Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baton)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/baton-trucking)
4. [Ryder Newsroom - Lab Announcement (BusinessWire)](https://newsroom.ryder.com/news/news-details/2023/Ryder-Establishes-Silicon-Valley-Based-Technology-Lab-Led-by-Founders-of-Start-Up-Baton/default.aspx)
5. [Ryder Investor Relations - Same Announcement](https://investors.ryder.com/news-events/News-Releases/news-details/2023/Ryder-Establishes-Silicon-Valley-Based-Technology-Lab-Led-by-Founders-of-Start-Up-Baton/default.aspx)

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