Senior Platform Engineer — Hybrid Toronto (Scale & Reliability)

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

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.