Senior Platform Engineer

Clutch Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online car retailer is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance CI/CD practices and improve deployment workflows. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in DevOps, proficiency with Infrastructure as Code principles, and expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. This permanent full-time position offers a competitive salary range of CAD 160,000 - 200,000 per annum along with comprehensive health and dental benefits.

Benefits

Autonomy & ownership

Above market health & dental benefits

Opportunity to shape the future of car buying

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a devops or platform engineering role.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and Terraform.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Improve CI/CD pipeline and redesign sandbox deployment strategy.
• Develop infrastructure as code and maintain Terraform configurations.
• Automate manual processes through scripting to enhance reliability.

Skills

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code principles

Terraform

Containerization technologies

Scripting (bash, javascript, Python)

CI/CD pipeline management

Cloud spend management

Collaboration and communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Clutch

We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game?

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning.

Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca.

About the Role

Clutch is growing, and our DevOps practices need to grow with us. We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help lead that evolution—someone who knows how to build a great product shipping pipeline and can help us develop great devops practices as we scale.

Our engineering team ships frequently, and we're facing real challenges: managing the volume of changes moving through our pipeline each day while ensuring our quality checks keep pace. You'll work on a mature microservices monorepo, improving developer experience and deployment workflows across sandbox, staging, and production environments.

Engineers here have high autonomy, and we're looking for someone who thrives in that environment—someone who can identify what's slowing us down and take ownership of fixing it.

What you’ll do

• Improve CI/CD pipeline, redesign and improve sandbox deployment strategy
• Develop infrastructure as code, maintain and extend Terraform configurations across multiple AWS accounts and environments
• Automate manual processes through scripting, reducing engineering friction, enhance github actions, and enable more reliable deployments
• Build tooling and automation that reduces friction for engineering teams spinning up isolated environments
• Refine observability, logging, monitoring and alerting across all environments
• Implement and maintain secrets management, encryption, and access controls

What we’re looking for

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a devops or platform engineering role
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and Terraform
• Strong experience with containerization technologies including docker and kubernetes
• Experience with process improvement through automation using bash, javascript or Python
• Experience deploying and maintaining a reliable CI/CD pipeline and related workflows
• Experience managing cloud spend and identifying efficiency improvements
• Strong collaboration and written communication skills, experience documenting systems

Nice to Have

• Experience with feature flagging platforms
• Experience with Monorepo tooling
• Experience designing an Internal Developer Platform

Why you’ll love it at Clutch

• Autonomy & ownership – opportunity to build your process and influence the company workforce and at every level.
• Help shape the future of car buying and selling in Canada by leading a critical part of our customer experience.
• You’ll have a broad and direct ownership over [Field of work] during a phase of rapid growth.
• We are dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent with top-of-market compensation packages.
• Above market health & dental benefits.

Employment Type

• New, Permanent Full-Time

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $160 000 - 200 000 per annum
• Benefits: Comprehensive benefits plans include healthcare, dental care, vision care, prescriptions, life insurance and dependent coverage; start from day 1. (Applicable for Permanent Full-Time)
• Pay decisions reflect objective criteria: skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities and working conditions.

Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email [e-mail].