Founding Platform Engineer — AWS Infra, CI/CD & Security

Burq, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical coverage

Educational resources

Job summary

Burq, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of our Platform team, owning infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.

You will shape the platform that Burq scales on for years to come and accelerate all product teams. With deep AWS expertise and Terraform IaC, you will design and implement scalable, secure environments, build robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and lead observability efforts with CloudWatch and Datadog.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience overall.
• 3+ years in infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Deep AWS expertise: ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS.
• Terraform proficiency and IaC discipline.
• Strong CI/CD background, especially GitHub Actions.
• Security-minded with least-privilege governance.
• Experience with observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Own AWS account split across production, staging, and development.
• Migrate Aurora production with advisor support.
• Manage ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and ALB.
• Own Terraform and IaC processes.
• Harden IAM and enforce least privilege.
• Coordinate SOC 2 readiness with Sprinto.
• Own GitHub Actions pipelines and CI/CD improvements.
• Design and maintain observability dashboards and runbooks.

Skills

Engineering experience

Platform engineering

AWS expertise

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Observability tools

Security mindset

Tools

CloudWatch

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

Burq, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of our Platform team, owning infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.

You will shape the platform that Burq scales on for years to come and accelerate all product teams. With deep AWS expertise and Terraform IaC, you will design and implement scalable, secure environments, build robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and lead observability efforts with CloudWatch and Datadog.