Staff Platform Engineer Toronto

Clutch Canada Inc.; Toronto; Híbrido; CAD 200.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare benefits

Dental and vision care

Life insurance

Dependent coverage

Hybrid work model

Descripción de la vacante

Clutch Canada Inc. is seeking its first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer in Toronto. You will define platform strategy, build internal developer tooling, and own CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.

This role focuses on enabling dozens of engineers to move faster with scalable, self-service platforms. You'll collaborate with engineering leadership to set standards, drive observability, security, and reliability across the org, while working in a Hybrid model three days a week in downtown Toronto.

Formación

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure and platform engineering at scale.
• Experience as Staff Engineer / Technical Lead shaping technical strategy.
• Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD.
• Excellent written communication and ability to influence engineers and leadership.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup with ownership and ambiguity.

Responsabilidades

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

Conocimientos

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps

Technical leadership

Herramientas

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD platforms

Descripción del empleo

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling 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 one of Canada's top growing Companies two years in a row and also awarded a spot on LinkedIn's Top Canadian Startups list, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including Canaan, BrandProject, Real Ventures, D1 Capital, 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.
• 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.
• We are dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent with top-of-market compensation packages.

Employment Type:

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