Founding Staff Platform Engineer - Internal Dev Platform

Clutch Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy & ownership

Competitive compensation packages

Comprehensive benefits (health, dental

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Clutch Canada, headquartered in Toronto, is hiring its first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to define and build the internal platform that enables all engineers to move faster, ship safer, and scale effectively. You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set platform strategy and standards, and create self-service tooling and workflows to support delivery at scale.

You will own the architecture of CI/CD flows, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and developer experiences, driving observability,

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 experience building 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 that improve reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the organization.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

Go

JavaScript

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Clutch Canada, headquartered in Toronto, is hiring its first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to define and build the internal platform that enables all engineers to move faster, ship safer, and scale effectively. You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set platform strategy and standards, and create self-service tooling and workflows to support delivery at scale.

You will own the architecture of CI/CD flows, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and developer experiences, driving observability,