Senior Platform Engineer/ High Growth

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Downtown Toronto for a high-growth tech org building reliability and incident‑response software. You’ll own cloud infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, and platform architecture, collaborating closely with product engineering teams.

The role is hybrid with three onsite days weekly, using AWS, Terraform, Ruby, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, and serverless tech to deliver scalable, production‑grade tooling and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience across Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with production tooling
• Strong hands-on AWS cloud infra and Terraform, with understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering
• Deep knowledge of observability, monitoring, incident response, CI/CD, performance optimization, and SLOs

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 70%
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30%
• This role will own cloud infra, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and platform architecture

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

CI/CD

Automation tooling

Production software dev

Tools

Terraform

Ruby

Go

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

DynamoDB

AWS Lambda

Job description

A high-growth technology organization building mission‑critical reliability and incident‑response software is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale the infrastructure behind its platform.

This is a software‑engineering‑focused infrastructure role for someone who enjoys solving reliability, performance, scalability, and developer experience challenges through production‑grade code and automation.

You’ll have significant ownership across cloud infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and platform architecture while partnering closely with product engineering teams. The environment includes AWS, Terraform, Ruby, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, and serverless technologies. This role follows a hybrid model with 3 days per week onsite in Downtown Toronto.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience across Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, combined with significant production software development experience and the ability to build maintainable tooling beyond shell‑based automation.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, production web or RPC services, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Deep knowledge of observability, monitoring, incident response, CI/CD, performance optimization, SLOs, error budgets, and the operational practices required to support highly available production environments.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience building production software or infrastructure tooling with Ruby and/or Go, ideally while working directly within product engineering teams.
• Experience operating distributed data and messaging technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda in production environments.
• Strong capacity‑planning and systems architecture experience, with the ability to identify cross‑platform performance, resilience, and scaling risks before they become production issues.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands‑On Engineering: 70%

• Team Collaboration & Cross‑Functional Work: 30%

  You will receive the following benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Vacation Time

  Current Vacancy: Yes

  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full‑time basis now and in the future.

  Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.