Platform Engineer

Top Hat; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in Canada is seeking a DevOps engineer to join its Core Platform team. The role involves scaling continuous deployment practices and mentoring junior developers. Ideal candidates are experienced in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, and configuration automation. This remote position also emphasizes collaboration and best practices in software delivery while working with innovative technologies.

Benefits

Flexible remote work environment

Competitive health benefits

Professional development opportunities

Innovative PTO policy

Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps practices and principles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services on AWS.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tooling and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Scale continuous deployment practices across the engineering department.
• Lead efforts to mature cloud infrastructure and platform.
• Mentor platform team members and support new developers.
• Contribute to modernizing monolith through transitioning to services.

Skills

DevOps practices

Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Terraform)

CI/CD tooling knowledge (Github Actions)

Configuration automation (Terraform)

Docker

Python proficiency

Job description

Location

Canada

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Engineering

We’re looking for an engineer experienced with DevOps practices to join our Core Platform team. The primary goal of this team is to improve our software delivery performance and availability by driving DevOps culture, tools, and practices across the engineering department. Besides the multiplicative impact of your own contributions, this role is a good mentorship opportunity for teams learning to build and operate their own services.

*We are open to remote candidates based anywhere across Canada for this role

You will:

• Scale continuous deployment practices across the engineering department. Equip our teams to ship software reliably, frequently, with minimal trouble. Teams use reusable patterns and guidance from you to be able to practice DevOps (end-to-end production ownership within each cross-functional team). This means you’ll work with tools and infrastructure in addition to managing processes and practices.

• Extend our reusable service template and its associated CI/CD tooling.

• Lead in efforts to further mature our cloud infrastructure and platform offering as our business grows.

• Build and extend our production observability. Help teams manage and achieve SLOs

• Contribute to the further decomposition and modernization of our monolith through its transition to services owned by product teams. The department is executing a monolith decomposition plan that you’ll help accelerate.

• Build and operate platform-level shared services and capabilities, such as continuous integration, continuous deployment, infrastructure automation and monitoring.

• Mentor and assist platform team members to help them acclimatize to the domain. As part of your role, you will support new & junior developers to learn the way we work - day-to-day routines, best practices, and patterns. You will be comfortable giving both positive and constructive feedback, and do so tactfully.

• Coach product teams on operational ownership. Teach blame-free root cause analysis for incidents that impact the customer or our delivery performance.

• Participate in our team on-call practices and support rotations.

You are:

• You are an advocate for DevOps practices and principles. We have the buy-in, now it’s about execution on the vision.

• You have cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge (AWS, Terraform) to be able to design and operate services on the cloud.

• You have CI/CD tooling knowledge (Github Actions) and experience in maintaining large multi-stage pipelines.

• You have hands-on experience with configuration automation (Terraform), Docker, observability tooling (Honeycomb). We’re fully on AWS.

• You are proficient in at least one software development language - your skills are transferable, but since we rely on Python for most of our platform work, familiarity with it will give you a strong head start.

• You are a team player who can work collaboratively with others, but also run with a mostly-self-contained project independently when required.

Why team members love working at Top Hat:

• A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work

• A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other

• Flexible, remote first work environment

• Professional learning and development for all role levels

• An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ

• Competitive health benefits that start on day one

• A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection

• Our winning strategy and market potential

• Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care

• Passionate customers that believe in us—and what we do

• A chance to work with new tech like generative AI—and see the customer impact