Platform Engineer

Archer Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team in Toronto, Ontario. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kafka and GCP, leading migrations and architectural initiatives on impactful projects. The role provides high autonomy within a supportive engineering environment, focusing on building self-service platforms and enhancing the developer experience.

Benefits

High autonomy

Strong engineering leadership support

Impactful organisation-wide initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building self-service platforms for developers.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka in production.
• Ability to work autonomously with architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Build out a new API gateway and support a rebuild of the development environment.
• Lead migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for big-data systems.
• Monitor and maintain platforms and systems related to Kafka.

Skills

Kafka expertise

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Building self-service platforms

Autonomy in architectural direction

Job description

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team.

This role would suit an experienced Platform Engineer keen to work on high-impact projects at a global level.

Key Responsibilities

• Build out a new API gateway and support a broader rebuild of the development environment. Kick-off is planned for early January.

• Lead the migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for internal big-data systems. This is a critical, high-priority initiative requiring deep Kafka expertise.
• Participate in a rotation handling developer requests, approvals, feature queries, and operational tasks to shield the engineering team from interruptions.
• Monitor, maintain, and respond to incidents related to platforms and systems you deploy—particularly Kafka.

Essential Experience

• Strong experience building self-service platforms for developers. You understand the difference between enabling teams and traditional DevOps execution.
• Hands‑on experience standing up, configuring, and operating Kafka in production. You must be able to lead a full migration effort independently.
• Ability to hit the ground running and work autonomously, taking architectural direction from a staff engineer.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a significant advantage.

Why You’ll Love It?

• Work on impactful, organisation‑wide engineering initiatives
• Join a team that treats its platforms as products, not services
• Opportunity to shape internal developer tooling and infrastructure
• High autonomy with strong engineering leadership support

If you’re a senior‑level Platform Engineer with deep Kafka experience and a passion for improving developer experience, we’d love to hear from you.

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