DevOps Engineer (Canada, Remote)

Hive.co; Toronto; Remote; CAD 123,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their infrastructure and ensure optimal performance across critical services. This role involves working with cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker, focusing on scalability, security, and continuous improvement. The company values a remote-first culture, allowing you to work from anywhere in Canada. With a competitive salary and benefits package, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the live events industry, where your expertise will help shape the future of their platform.

Benefits

Fully remote work

Flexible work hours

Comprehensive health and dental coverage

Unlimited vacation/PTO

Equity options based on impact

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Infrastructure/DevOps/Site Reliability.
• 3+ years experience with AWS, Linux, and Kubernetes.
• Expertise in containerized services and cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Enhance stability and resilience of critical services.
• Develop strategies for scalable infrastructure and monitoring.
• Collaborate on security and compliance initiatives.

Skills

Infrastructure/DevOps/Site Reliability

AWS

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

DataDog

Redis

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

DataDog

Redis

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

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This range is provided by Hive.co. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

CA$123,600.00/yr - CA$187,900.00/yr

At Hive, we bring people together through unforgettable live experiences. Hive exists to help live events grow. We make it easy for promoters to build strong connections with their audiences via our industry leading platform.

Our Engineering Team owns the code and infra that lets our customers achieve meaningful results with our product, simply, and intuitively. We process high-volume, real-time data from over 20 integrations (including Ticketmaster and Shopify), manage and query billions of customer data points, and deliver over 100 million emails and SMS messages monthly to our clients' customers. Our developers focus on delivering the right product iterations with speed and precision—building minimum viable products, deploying to production multiple times daily, gathering customer feedback, and refining continuously.

We're seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and focus on Infrastructure as Code, Security, and Business Continuity planning. Our technologies hosted on AWS include Python, React, Redis, Mongo, SQL, Elasticsearch, and others.

What you will be doing:

• Enhance the stability, resilience, and availability of critical services, ensuring optimal performance and minimize downtime across all systems.
• Develop and implement strategies for scalable and repeatable infrastructure, observability, and monitoring that support the organization's growth and expansion.
• Be the subject matter expert for all things infrastructure. Promote a culture of continuous improvement by driving initiatives and guiding fellow engineers in your area of expertise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain security and compliance initiatives, including SOC2 requirements, ensuring infrastructure and processes align with best practices
• Assist in establishing clear incident management baselines, including defining metrics and setting targets, to effectively measure and improve response times and overall system stability.
• Creating and maintaining documentation for infrastructure and application components, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting guides.
• Contribute to shaping the organization's strategic direction by providing valuable insights and recommendations based on industry trends, best practices, and technical expertise.
  
  

What you have:

• At least 6 years of experience in Infrastructure/DevOps/Site Reliability
• At least 3 years experience with AWS
• Familiarity with maintaining uptime KPIs on critical systems
• Expert with Linux, Kubernetes, and containerized services
• Experience scaling complex cloud native environments
• Experience with as many of our existing technologies is a large plus: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Atlantis, DataDog, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RDS, Grafana, Sentry, Nginx
  
  

Who you are:

• You’re driven to create impact, leveraging your technical expertise to deliver meaningful outcomes. You approach your work with a sense of urgency and accountability.
• You’re able to clearly explain complex things you’ve built to others, identifying tradeoffs you made and the hard problems you had to solve
• You've thrived while working on a semi or fully-remote team (communicate effectively async, work independently, know when to ask for help, self-manage your time and effort). You can articulate your preferred communication & working style to your teammates
  
  

Technologies we use & teach

• Frontend: React, Typescript
• Backend: Python, Django, RabbitMQ
• Databases: Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
  
  

Comp/Benefits Package

• Meaningful salary and equity: You're rewarded based on impact.
• The compensation range for this role is $123,600 to $187,900 CAD per year, depending on qualifications and experience. This compensation range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to job-related skills, experience and relevant training, and business and organizational needs. New team members typically start between $123,600 - $155,000, based on experience and alignment with the expectations outlined in this posting. This range reflects not just where you begin, but the growth we expect and invest in as you grow at Hive.
• Fully remote: Work fully remote in Canada, where you’re most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere. We just ask that you have legal Canadian work authorization
• Flexible work hours: Choose your 9-5 as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive.
• Health + Insurance: Comprehensive health & dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program.
• Unlimited vacation/PTO: So you can be happy and healthy!
  
  

About Hive

Hive is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers. Our platform powers marketing for 1500+ of the most iconic event, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America.

We help our clients sell out their shows and make their events unforgettable - by helping them grow their customer base and personalizing and automating their email, SMS, and ad campaigns.

Hive integrates with 25+ partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify, ingesting rich customer data in real-time. With this data, event marketers can segment their audiences in powerful ways and send timely, customized messages to their customers.

Hive was founded in a University of Waterloo computer lab and graduated from Y Combinator in 2014. Today, we’re a remote-first team spread across Canada and the US, building a product and a culture that values clarity, ownership, and real customer impact.

To learn more about our team, check out the About Us and Careers pages on our website.

Compensation Range: CA$123.6K - CA$187.9K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Internet Publishing

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