Senior Platform Engineer

Burq, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical coverage

Educational resources

Job summary

Burq, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of our Platform team, owning infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.

You will shape the platform that Burq scales on for years to come and accelerate all product teams. With deep AWS expertise and Terraform IaC, you will design and implement scalable, secure environments, build robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and lead observability efforts with CloudWatch and Datadog.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience overall.
• 3+ years in infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Deep AWS expertise: ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS.
• Terraform proficiency and IaC discipline.
• Strong CI/CD background, especially GitHub Actions.
• Security-minded with least-privilege governance.
• Experience with observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Own AWS account split across production, staging, and development.
• Migrate Aurora production with advisor support.
• Manage ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and ALB.
• Own Terraform and IaC processes.
• Harden IAM and enforce least privilege.
• Coordinate SOC 2 readiness with Sprinto.
• Own GitHub Actions pipelines and CI/CD improvements.
• Design and maintain observability dashboards and runbooks.

Skills

Engineering experience

Platform engineering

AWS expertise

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Observability tools

Security mindset

Tools

CloudWatch

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team — the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.

Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result.

This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.

Infrastructure

• Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments
• Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor
• Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
• Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops

Security & Access

• Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement
• Audit and lock down public S3 buckets
• Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts
• Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto
• Coordinate external penetration test cadence

CI/CD & Developer Experience

• Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity
• Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently
• Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod
• Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline

Observability & Reliability

• Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health
• Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry
• Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue

• 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
• Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
• Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters
• Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management
• Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
• Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Investing in you

• Competitive salary
• Medical coverage
• Access to educational resources and courses