Staff Platform Engineer

Clutch Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy & ownership

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Clutch Canada is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build and scale our internal developer platform, enabling every engineer to move faster and ship safely. You’ll define platform standards and own CI/CD workflows, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

You’ll partner with engineering leadership, drive architectural decisions, and craft self-service tooling that scales with our growth, while maintaining strong collaboration across teams in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Experience as Staff Engineer or senior IC driving technical strategy.
• Strong AWS, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD experience.
• Proficient in Python/Go/JavaScript or similar.
• Excellent written communication and cross-team influence.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Platform Engineering strategy at Clutch.
• Evolve Internal Developer Platform to improve developer productivity.
• Own architecture and evolution of CI/CD platform and deployment workflows.
• Design scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
• Improve developer velocity via automation and tooling.
• Define reusable infrastructure patterns to improve reliability and security.

Job description

About Clutch:

We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game?

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning.

Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca.

About the Role

Platform Engineering is becoming a strategic investment at Clutch, and we're looking for our first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to help define what that looks like.

This isn't about maintaining infrastructure, it's about building the internal platform that enables every engineer at Clutch to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale.

You'll partner closely with engineering leadership to define our platform strategy, establish engineering standards, and build the self-service tooling, infrastructure, and developer workflows that become the foundation for how engineering operates. From CI/CD and cloud infrastructure to developer experience, observability, and internal tooling, you'll own the technical direction of the platform and have the autonomy to build it the right way.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving organization-wide engineering problems, thinks in systems rather than individual services, and wants to create leverage for dozens of engineers rather than shipping features for one product team.

This is a rare opportunity to build Platform Engineering from the ground up, defining the strategy, establishing the function, and growing the team as Clutch continues to scale.

What you’ll do:

• Define and execute Clutch's Platform Engineering strategy.
• Build and evolve our Internal Developer Platform to improve developer productivity through self-service tooling.
• Own the architecture and evolution of our CI/CD platform and deployment workflows.
• Design and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
• Improve developer velocity through automation, platform tooling, and infrastructure improvements.
• Define platform standards and reusable infrastructure patterns that improve reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the organization.

What we’re looking for:

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or developer tooling at scale.
• Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior individual contributor driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Strong software engineering mindset with experience building tooling in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Experience designing scalable developer platforms, deployment systems, or engineering enablement tooling.
• Proven ability to identify organization-wide technical problems and build long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills with the ability to influence engineers and technical leadership.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with significant ownership and ambiguity.

Nice to Have

• Experience with feature flagging platforms
• Experience with Monorepo tooling
• Experience designing an Internal Developer Platform

Why you’ll love it at Clutch:

• Autonomy & ownership – opportunity to build your process and influence the company workforce and at every level.
• Help shape the future of car buying and selling in Canada by leading a critical part of our customer experience.
• You’ll have a broad and direct ownership over [Field of work] during a phase of rapid growth.
• We are dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent with top-of-market compensation packages.
• Above market health & dental benefits.

Employment Type:

• New, Permanent Full-Time
• Hybrid, Downtown Toronto three days a week

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary range: $200,000+ per annum
• Benefits: Comprehensive benefits plans include healthcare, dental care, vision care, prescriptions, life insurance and dependent coverage; start from day 1. (Applicable for Permanent Full-Time)
• Pay decisions reflect objective criteria: skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities and working conditions.

Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email [e-mail].