Senior Platform Engineer, CI/CD & Deployment

Wealthsimple; Remote; CAD 151,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Developer to enhance their CI/CD infrastructure and deployment systems. This role focuses on orchestrating deployments with Kubernetes, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have 7+ years in software development and strong expertise in CI/CD workflows. The position offers competitive compensation, top-tier health benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Top-tier health benefits

20 vacation days + 4 wellness days

90 days away program

Employee Resources Groups

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in team-based software development, focusing on platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in modern deployment and orchestration.
• Experience designing and building deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and observability tools.
• Comfortable writing tooling, automation, and infrastructure code.

Responsibilities

• Enhance canary deployment strategies and build self-service deployment tools.
• Improve CI workflows for speed and reliability.
• Design automated quality checks for production safety.
• Create deployment monitoring dashboards using Datadog.
• Implement frameworks for system resilience and continuous load testing.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and increase deployment velocity.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps workflows

CI/CD experience

Reliability engineering

Technical versatility in TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin

Load testing tools like k6

Infrastructure as Code

Strong collaboration skills

Job description

A leading fintech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Developer to enhance their CI/CD infrastructure and deployment systems. This role focuses on orchestrating deployments with Kubernetes, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have 7+ years in software development and strong expertise in CI/CD workflows. The position offers competitive compensation, top-tier health benefits, and a remote-first work environment.