Senior Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Multi-Tenant Systems

VSG Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

VSG Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth technology company to hire a Senior Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in Toronto. This is a senior, staff-level engineering role focused on owning and building the core platform powering a growing portfolio of software businesses.

You'll take end-to-end ownership of critical parts of the technology stack, from architecture through production operations and long-term technical direction.

Qualifications

• Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior engineering experience; proven production systems ownership.
• Strong programming in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and fault tolerance.
• Experience building modern data infrastructure with Kafka, Spark, Iceberg, Snowflake, Databricks.
• Knowledge of multi-tenant architectures and API design.
• Platform engineering mindset focusing on developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Own a major area of the platform from architecture to production operations.
• Design and implement backend services and APIs.
• Build data infrastructure and multi-tenant infrastructure.
• Develop observability, metrics, tracing, and testing capabilities.
• Ensure platform safety, autonomy controls, and auditability.
• Set technical direction to scale platform across portfolio.
• Collaborate with other teams to drive reliability and AI/ML deployment readiness.

Skills

Senior engineering experience

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Tools

Kafka

Spark

dbt

Iceberg

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Job description

VSG Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth technology company to hire a Senior Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in Toronto. This is a senior, staff-level engineering role focused on owning and building the core platform powering a growing portfolio of software businesses.

You'll take end-to-end ownership of critical parts of the technology stack, from architecture through production operations and long-term technical direction.