Founding Platform Engineer: Build Our Internal Dev Platform

Clutch; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental benefits

Autonomy and ownership

Start day 1 benefits

Job summary

Clutch is redefining how people buy, sell, and own cars in Canada. We are building a dedicated Staff Platform Engineer role to define and own the internal platform that enables every engineer to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale.

You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set platform strategy, establish standards, and delivery self-service tooling, infrastructure, and workflows that scale with the company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or developer tooling at scale.
• Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior IC driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Strong software engineering mindset with tooling in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Experience designing scalable developer platforms, deployment systems, or engineering enablement tooling.
• Proven ability to identify organization-wide technical problems and build long-term solutions.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills with the ability to influence engineers and technical leadership.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with significant ownership and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Clutch's Platform Engineering strategy.
• Build and evolve our Internal Developer Platform to improve developer productivity through self-service tooling.
• Own the architecture and evolution of our CI/CD platform and deployment workflows.
• Design and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
• Improve developer velocity through automation, platform tooling, and infrastructure improvements.
• Define platform standards and reusable infrastructure patterns across the organization.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD platforms

Python/Go/JS

Technical leadership

Documentation/communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

Clutch is redefining how people buy, sell, and own cars in Canada. We are building a dedicated Staff Platform Engineer role to define and own the internal platform that enables every engineer to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale.

You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set platform strategy, establish standards, and delivery self-service tooling, infrastructure, and workflows that scale with the company.