Software Engineer - Platform Development & Implementation

Shakudo; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology startup in Toronto is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and own platform features for data and AI solutions. This role emphasizes close collaboration with customers and requires experience in modern technologies like React and Kubernetes. You'll work in an onsite environment, contributing to impactful technical projects. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, is eager to learn, and has a strong analytical mindset. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Top-tier health benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with leading-edge technologies and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong analytical mindset to solve complex technical problems.
• Eagerness to learn platform architecture and deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and own platform features and customer implementations end-to-end.
• Work side-by-side with customers to address data and AI challenges.
• Shape platform architecture for critical business operations.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Enterprise platform experience

Analytical mindset

Curiosity for AI-assisted coding

Job description

What is Shakudo?

The name is the Japanese word for alloy—different metals combined into something new. That's exactly what we're doing at Shakudo.

We're building the world's first OS for data and AI—an ecosystem that empowers software engineers to build sophisticated data and AI applications without becoming infrastructure experts. We use "operating system" in the truest product sense: like iOS, Windows, or Linux, Shakudo provides an end‑to‑end, ever‑evolving, automatically operated stack of best‑of‑breed open‑source components, applications and integrations tailored to each business's needs.

Which segment of the market do we serve?

As a startup, this evolves. Today, we serve large enterprises—often in air‑gapped data centers and complex deployment environments where failure isn't an option. It's one of our biggest value props and presents unique technical and product challenges. If you thrive in ambiguity and enjoy making the unknown known while solving problems that matter, you'll fit right in.

The role

You'll build and own platform features and customer implementations end‑to‑end—from design and development to deployment and customer success. You'll work side-by-side with customers on their most pressing data and AI challenges, deploying our proven platform to solve problems that directly impact their business outcomes. This is your opportunity to learn cutting-edge technologies while working on real problems that matter across diverse industries.

We're an onsite team. Join us in the office for fast feedback loops, and shipping together at high velocity.

The ideal candidate

We're an engineering‑first organization focused on solving problems that matter. We eat, breathe, and sleep the latest in platform engineering and customer delivery, adopting new tech when it's battle‑tested (half a step behind the bleeding edge). If you're excited about working with leading-edge technology while making a real-world impact, you'll fit right in. We value high productivity, customer obsession, and learning without the ego.

What's the stack?

Multi-tenant platform components run on Kubernetes with React/TypeScript frontends and TypeScript backends. Customer deployments leverage our DevOps automation built on Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform, with implementations tailored to enterprise security and compliance requirements where reliability and security are non-negotiable.

We believe in picking the right tool for the job. If another technology is a better fit for solving a customer's critical problem, we'll use it.

Examples of what we build

• Multi-tenant platform components that handle enterprise-scale workloads
• Deployment pipelines for air-gapped, high-security environments
• Customer onboarding systems that get critical infrastructure running in days, not months

You'll own these projects from conception to deployment, working directly with customers to ensure success.

Skills we're looking for

• Technologies: React, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
• Enterprise platform experience, ideally at a startup or scale-up
• Growth-minded engineer. You have taste for clean implementations and solutions that create real business value
• Eagerness to learn platform architecture and deployment patterns for mission-critical systems
• Comfort with ambiguity; turn unknown customer requirements into clarity and results under pressure
• Strong analytical mindset and eagerness to solve complex technical problems that matter
• Curiosity for AI-assisted coding (Codex, Claude, OpenHands) and modern development practices

You'll help shape

• Platform architecture that powers critical business operations across industries
• Customer implementation strategies that solve real-world problems from discovery to production go-live
• Platform-level quality bars for systems where downtime isn't acceptable
• Customer delivery excellence that creates lasting business impact
• Product direction based on direct customer feedback and real-world usage
• Your own technical growth as you master cutting-edge tools and solve diverse challenges

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Shakudo in-person, remote, or distributed? Primarily in-person. We operate as an onsite team to enable fast feedback loops and ship quickly, so you'll work alongside the team in the office. High-impact work requires high-bandwidth collaboration.

What's the interview process? We build a deeply technical product that solves real-world problems. Because of its technical nature and customer impact focus, our interview process emphasizes both technical excellence and customer-focused thinking while respecting everyone's time.

What's the full package? Shakudo offers a high‑impact package: competitive salary, meaningful equity so you share in the upside of transformational technology, and top‑tier health benefits that have you fully covered. More importantly, you'll work on technology that matters.

Shakudo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We foster diversity and inclusivity and welcome applications from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.