Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Shakepay's team as a Senior Platform Engineer to help reimagine how Canadians build wealth and think about what they can do with their money. As a key member of the dev team, you'll be responsible for optimizing code delivery, developing deployment processes, and creating tooling to ensure our software gets to customers safely and efficiently.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineer role
• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS in production and continuous build environments
• Solid understanding of networking concepts such as HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS
• Experience monitoring high availability environments using tools such as DataDog
• Experience with customizing development tools
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization
• Experience working with a highly collaborative team
• Experience with incident management

Responsibilities

• Optimize code delivery to ensure that every engineer is delivering their best work
• Develop deployment processes and tools to ensure our software gets to customers safely and efficiently
• Streamline the engineering onboarding process via automation, highlighting learning opportunities and an introduction to delivery
• Create tooling and processes to help developers avoid outages
• Build/deploy/maintain security controls, instrumentation, and detection infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal system performance
• Measure key delivery metrics and respond to any major disruptions of service
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help keeping it sustainable

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options : Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan
• Health benefits from day 1 : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts
• Remote-friendly : Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
• Learning and development : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off : 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus
• Parental leave : Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Home office setup : A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses
• Salary in bitcoin option : Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist