Platform Engineer

SPS Commerce, Inc.; Brampton; On-site; CAD 83,500 - 102,120; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Financial security package

Job summary

SPS Commerce, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to maintain and enhance their cloud-based supply chain management solutions from their Brampton office. This role involves engineering secure and cost-effective platforms using technologies such as Kubernetes and AWS.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in Python or Golang, a strong background in Linux administration, and collaboration skills to work within a fast-paced environment.

The annual salary for this position ranges from $83,500 to $102,120 CAD, supported by comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 2+ years IT experience with a Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in Python and/or Golang with a software engineering mindset.
• Experience with immutable and scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain container orchestration platforms.
• Develop robust monitoring and observability services.
• Collaborate with teams to improve production systems.

Skills

Python

Golang

Linux Administration

AI coding tools

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

SPS Commerce is a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions, serving a global network of retail trading partners. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment where innovation and continuous improvement are highly valued. Join SPS Commerce and be part of a dynamic team that's transforming the global retail supply chain!

Position Summary

The SPS Commerce Platform Engineering team is responsible for delivering highly available platform services and deployment automation that empower our product engineering teams with services that are secure, reliable, cost effective, and enable product speed. Working within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, the Platform Engineering team partners with development to deliver market leading products and services. This role uses automation and other technologies to intelligently cope with challenging failures while collaborating with various engineering organizations to resolve failure risks at the source. The Platform Engineering team at SPS approaches Operations as a software problem and aims to apply software engineering approaches to those problems.

Essential Responsibilities / Duties

• Engineer and maintain highly available, secure, and cost-effective container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and ECS

• Develop robust monitoring and observability services and patterns to consistently improve the team’s ability to identify, react, respond, and recover from complex failures

• Collaborate with Technology Engineering, Development, and Product Management to help develop, scale, and improve production systems and services

• Partner with service teams to provide appropriate documentation, cross-training, architecture planning, capacity management, and recommendations for future state

• Engineer technical solutions to prevent or reduce the frequency of failures

• Write clean and correct code, write test plans and identify code quality improvements when reviewing code

• Design and operationalize AI agent infrastructure — Deploy and manage AI agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen) on SPS platform infrastructure, enabling automated multi-step operational workflows such as self-healing pipelines, infrastructure drift detection, and on-call triage automation running on Kubernetes

• Integrate AI coding assistants into Platform Engineering workflows — Evaluate, configure, and govern AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) within Platform Engineering’s development environment, ensuring secure integration with SPS CI/CD pipelines, code review processes, and IaC toolchains such as Terraform and CloudFormation

Location

This role follows a hybrid work model at our Brampton office.

Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years IT experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 1 year with a Master’s degree, or a PhD without experience, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in Python and/or Golang with a software engineering mindset
• Experience administering Linux
• Experience with immutable and scalable infrastructure (infrastructure as code concepts)
• Demonstrated understanding of networking systems, various identity and authorization systems
• Problem solving and collaboration skills
• Experience using AI coding tools (GitHub, Copilot, Claude) to support Platform Engineering workflows
• Understanding of Agentic AI and MCP Servers

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with Agile development methodology and task execution
• Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines or other deployment automation solutions
• Experience with platform and service mesh technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Consul, ECS, etc.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services including EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Route53, Elastic Load Balancers, AMIs, IAM Roles, and CloudFormation
• Experience with advanced monitoring solutions such as metrics platforms, logging, distributed tracing, and the like

Benefits

At SPS Commerce, we are committed to ensuring that each employee's compensation reflects their unique experiences, performance, and skills in their role. The salary range for this role considers several factors, including education, relevant skills, work history, certifications, location, and more. The annual salary range for this role is: $83,500.00 - $102,120 CAD. Benefits include a comprehensive package designed to support employees’ health, well-being, and financial security, aligned with local laws and market practices.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.