Platform Engineer II

Emburse, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a skilled engineer to develop and enhance a cloud-native platform, driving automation and CI/CD processes. Ideal candidates will hold a computer science degree and have expertise in AWS or Azure, as well as strong problem-solving capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and a dynamic team focused on impactful developments.

Qualifications

• Experience with full lifecycle of SaaS implementations as well as Infrastructure as code.
• Ability to write SQL queries, advanced Linux skills, and TCP/IP proficiency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve a cloud-native platform that unifies internal services.
• Drive automated CI/CD pipelines to ship secure, high-quality releases.
• Own and resolve technically intricate issues across development and operations.

Skills

Listening

Teamwork

Analysis

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

New Relic

Coralogix

Datadog

Job description

About the Company

At Emburse our mission is to help make our users’ lives – and their businesses – better. We are dramatically transforming how organizations manage corporate expenses and invoices. We humanize work by automating manual tasks and saving users’ time, so they can focus on what matters most – their family, community, or more rewarding work. We help CFO’s give their employees a simple and amazing experience while ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Our solutions are tailored for companies from start-ups and SMBs to enterprises such as Microsoft, Pinterest, Bosch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Estee Lauder. We have more than 18,000 customers and 12 million users globally.

In this role, you will develop and evolve a cloud-native platform that unifies internal services through resilient, well-tested code and infrastructure-as-code. You will drive automated CI/CD pipelines to ship secure, high-quality releases, and leverage comprehensive observability to safeguard performance, reliability, and scalability.

What You Will Do

• Engineering automation, monitoring, reactive and proactive system mitigation
• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work which include Scale infrastructure via automation
• Perform all configuration management duties
• OOP, creating containers, managing clusters, EKS, K8s, Kubernetes, Docker
• Meet and beat Key Performance Indicators, SLAs, maintain an error budget and adhere to it
• Ensure the platform holds a high degree of reliability, at least three 9s of availability
• Provide recommendations and feedback in review and design sessions
• Design, maintain, and continually refine automated CI/CD pipelines with containers
• Monitor usage trends, surface optimization opportunities, and collaborate with product teams to forecast demand and right-size cloud spend.
• Perform operational architectural overviews, design and implementation
• Own and resolve technically intricate issues that cross between DevOps, databases, networking, code, infrastructure and people; drive them to satisfactory completion.
• Work closely with product different stakeholders to align Operational priorities and planning with the product and engineering roadmap
• Prepare and present engineering-related documents to key stakeholders
• Other duties as assigned

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM field or related experience preferred
• AWS or Azure Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification preferred
• Experience with full lifecycle of SaaS implementations as well as Infrastructure as code.
• Listening, teamwork, analysis, reasoning and problem solving, time management, attention to details.
• Ability to write SQL queries, advanced Linux skills, diagnostic experience with monitoring applications (APM), APM configuration, basic IAM management, TCP/IP and OSI proficiency
• Experience with tools such as New Relic, Coralogix, and Datadog
• Proficiency in both AWS and Azure
• Ability to merge and apply PRs (Ansible and Terraform)
• Deep understanding of release cycles and SDLC
• Ability to create and complete Jenkins builds
• Deep understanding of infrastructure and architecture
• Intermediate to advanced Linux skills
• Basic identity management via IAM
• Unix essentials
• Attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

How We Hire

We value great candidate experiences and commit to providing a transparent interview process and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short technical screening, after which interviews are scheduled with several engineers at Emburse. During the interview process, you'll have the opportunity to speak openly with engineers about their experiences working at the company. We're productive with decisions and usually complete the interview process with a candidate within two weeks.

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.