About the role
This is a Staff-level infrastructure engineering role focused on building the platform foundations that enable engineering teams to move faster and operate more reliably. You'll combine hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, shaping self-service infrastructure, cloud platforms, deployment systems, and operational tooling. A major focus will be replacing expert-driven provisioning and operational workflows with paved roads that provide clear ownership, safe defaults, strong guardrails, and measurable adoption.
Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure challenges into clear technical proposals and drive them through RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team alignment.
- Design and build self-service platform capabilities and APIs, primarily in Go, covering onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
- Establish reliable delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive delivery, automated testing, and continuous deployment practices.
- Evolve multi-tenant EKS infrastructure to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Develop and improve ingress and traffic-routing capabilities, including Envoy Gateway and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.
- Strengthen SLOs, alerting, incident response, and operational follow-up through Grafana Cloud and improved observability practices.
- Develop AI-assisted operational workflows such as alert enrichment, incident context gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis, remediation recommendations, and onboarding assistants.
- Participate in the on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing.
- Lead strategic platform initiatives from initial design through production adoption.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering expertise in Go or a comparable programming language.
- Proven experience designing, delivering, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.
- Deep expertise in at least one area such as Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
- Strong Linux, networking, and production operations fundamentals.
- Experience setting technical direction and leading initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience with EKS, ingress, CNI, or service-mesh technologies is valuable.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, progressive delivery, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and canary deployments is a plus.
Conditions
- CA$238,250–CA$382,250 + equity for Canada-based candidates.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Flexible scheduling and autonomy in managing working hours.
- Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and an end-of-year wellness break.
- Home-office support.
- Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
- Equity participation for full-time employees.
- Medical, retirement, and paid-holiday benefits.
- Offices available in Seattle.