Staff Platform Engineer - Architect Our Internal Dev Platform

Clutch Security; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy & ownership

Top market compensation packages

Health & dental benefits

Hybrid work in Downtown Toronto

Job summary

Clutch is seeking its first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to define and build the internal platform enabling every engineer to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale. You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set standards, tooling, and workflows for CI/CD, cloud infra, and developer experience.

You’ll own the platform strategy, drive architecture decisions across teams, and create scalable tooling that impacts dozens of engineers while delivering observability, security, and

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps

Developer tooling

Python

Go

JavaScript

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD platforms

GitHub Actions

Job description

Clutch is seeking its first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to define and build the internal platform enabling every engineer to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale. You’ll partner with engineering leadership to set standards, tooling, and workflows for CI/CD, cloud infra, and developer experience.

You’ll own the platform strategy, drive architecture decisions across teams, and create scalable tooling that impacts dozens of engineers while delivering observability, security, and