Platform Engineer II

Emburse; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in software development seeks a mid-senior level engineer to enhance their cloud-native platform. The role involves developing resilient code, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating on automation strategies. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in AWS or Azure and relevant technical skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with SaaS lifecycle and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Linux, and monitoring tools.
• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Associate certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance a cloud-native platform with resilient code.
• Lead automated CI/CD pipelines for secure releases.
• Engineer automation and monitoring strategies.

Skills

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Time management

Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

New Relic

Datadog

Coralogix

Job description

About The Company
At Emburse, our mission is to help make our users’ lives – and their businesses – better. We are transforming how organizations manage corporate expenses and invoices by automating manual tasks, saving time, and allowing users to focus on what matters most. We support CFOs in providing a seamless experience for employees while ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Our solutions serve a diverse range of companies from start-ups and SMBs to large enterprises such as Microsoft, Pinterest, Bosch, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Estee Lauder. We have over 18,000 customers and 12 million users worldwide.

Job Overview
In this role, you will develop and enhance a cloud-native platform that unifies internal services through resilient, well-tested code and infrastructure-as-code. You will lead automated CI/CD pipelines to deliver secure, high-quality releases, and utilize comprehensive observability to maintain performance, reliability, and scalability.

What You Will Do

• Engineer automation, monitoring, and system mitigation strategies.
• Design and implement automated code deployment systems, including scaling infrastructure via automation.
• Manage configuration duties effectively.
• Work with OOP, containers, clusters, EKS, K8s, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Meet and exceed KPIs and SLAs, maintain an error budget, and ensure high availability (at least three 9s).
• Participate in review and design sessions, providing recommendations and feedback.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines with containers.
• Monitor usage trends, identify optimization opportunities, and collaborate on cloud spend management.
• Conduct operational architectural reviews, design, and implementation.
• Resolve complex issues crossing DevOps, databases, networking, code, infrastructure, and personnel.
• Align operational priorities with product and engineering roadmaps through close collaboration with stakeholders.
• Prepare and present engineering documentation to key stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM field, or related experience.
• AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Associate certification preferred.
• Experience with SaaS lifecycle and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong skills in listening, teamwork, analysis, reasoning, problem-solving, time management, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in SQL, Linux, monitoring tools (APM), IAM, TCP/IP, OSI model.
• Experience with tools like New Relic, Coralogix, Datadog.
• Proficiency in AWS and Azure.
• Experience merging/applying PRs with Ansible and Terraform.
• Understanding of release cycles and SDLC.
• Ability to create and manage Jenkins builds.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure and architecture.
• Intermediate to advanced Linux skills, basic IAM, Unix essentials.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

How We Hire
We value a great candidate experience, providing transparent processes and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will undergo a technical screening followed by interviews with several engineers. The process is typically completed within two weeks.

Emburse is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and nondiscrimination policies in all employment practices.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development