Cloud Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Developer - Cloud Engineering based in Canada.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on building and scaling the cloud infrastructure behind a high-growth SaaS platform.

• Help define the long-term technical vision and architecture for cloud infrastructure in collaboration with Staff and Senior Staff engineers, translating strategic goals into actionable initiatives.
• Lead complex and ambiguous infrastructure problems from initial investigation through resolution, looking beyond symptoms to identify underlying technical and organizational causes.
• Drive large, cross-team initiatives by building relationships, creating alignment, and developing consensus among engineering and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering teams designing cloud infrastructure for new products and features.
• Design, improve, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud infrastructure across multiple regions.
• Strengthen day-to-day operational health by reducing noisy alerts, improving observability, hardening systems, and making infrastructure easier and safer to operate.
• Partner closely with Application Security stakeholders to strengthen infrastructure against security, compliance, and operational risks.
• Help establish and raise engineering standards around infrastructure architecture, infrastructure as code, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities to improve tooling, automation, and engineering workflows, including responsible adoption of AI-assisted development and research tools.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to incident response, post-incident learning, and improvements that prevent recurring issues.
• Mentor and support engineers across teams, raising the technical bar while sharing knowledge and encouraging sound architectural decision-making.
• Champion infrastructure improvements that increase the effectiveness of the wider engineering organization and support continued business growth.

• Deep expertise with AWS, including experience designing or operating multi-region deployments and highly available, high-scale cloud services.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise, particularly with Terraform and modern cloud provisioning practices.
• Excellent infrastructure architecture skills, with the ability to combine AWS services and cloud-native components into scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Proven experience operating databases at scale, including upgrades, capacity planning, performance tuning, scaling, and operational maintenance.
• A strong track record of leading large technical projects and building consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate complex problems, challenge assumptions, identify root causes, and drive solutions across organizational boundaries.
• Experience working in a meaningful-scale, rapidly growing technology environment, with practical experience navigating the infrastructure challenges associated with significant growth.
• Strong technical leadership capabilities, including setting direction, influencing without relying on formal authority, raising engineering standards, and developing others.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools for coding, technical research, or engineering workflows, combined with the judgment to determine when AI should be directed, validated, or overridden.
• Comfortable working in an environment where infrastructure decisions can have significant operational impact and where careful risk assessment is essential.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and take ownership of production reliability.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Candidates who do not meet every qualification but bring strong relevant experience and enthusiasm are encouraged to apply.

• Remote-first working model, with the opportunity to work from Canada without a hybrid requirement.
• Annual salary range of CAD $158,400–$247,500, reflecting progression from developing capability through advanced proficiency and excellence.
• Typical new-hire salary at the accomplished level of approximately CAD $188,100, depending on experience and demonstrated capabilities.
• Transparent compensation philosophy with opportunities for salary growth as skills, experience, and contribution increase.
• Regular career development and compensation conversations with your manager.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with modern cloud-native technologies at meaningful scale.
• Significant autonomy and ownership within a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Collaborative, remote-first culture spanning Canada, the US, and the UK.
• Opportunity to influence infrastructure strategy and engineering practices across a rapidly scaling platform.
• Strong focus on learning, adaptation, and professional growth.