Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Medium; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Remote opportunities

Flexible work options

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Job summary

Caseware is a senior engineering role focused on improving production resilience, security, and developer experience. You will design, build, and evolve foundational systems, tooling, and operational practices to enable secure, reliable software delivery across the organization.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Security, Platform, and Product teams, architect scalable distributed systems, and lead reliability standards while mentoring engineers in cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SRE/Platform Eng/DevOps experience.
• Deep AWS expertise: EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, S3.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and Istio.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability engineering initiatives for mission-critical services on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Design deployment, release, and rollback strategies for complex distributed systems.
• Establish secure-by-default CI/CD pipelines with automation and governance.
• Enhance observability with metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and reliability standards across the org.
• Lead high-severity incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers on cloud-native tech and reliability practices.
• Collaborate with teams to improve platform standards and runtime performance.

Skills

SRE/Platform engineering

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes (EKS)

Istio service mesh

IaC (AWS CDK)

CI/CD pipelines

Incident management

Leadership / mentoring

TypeScript/Node.js

Zero-trust / mTLS security

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS CDK

Istio

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

AWS X-Ray

Job description

Caseware is one of Canada's original Fintech companies, having led the global audit and accounting software industry for over 30 years, with more than 500,000 users across 130 countries and available in 16 different languages. While you might not have heard of us (yet) over 36,000 accounting and audit professionals list Caseware as a skill on their LinkedIn profiles.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role focused on improving production resilience, strengthening security, driving operational excellence, and enhancing the developer experience across the organization.

In this role, you will design, build, and evolve the foundational systems, tooling, and operational practices that enable engineering teams to ship secure, reliable, and scalable software with confidence. You will help establish reliability standards, define service level objectives (SLOs), improve observability, automate operational processes, and drive incident management and post‑incident learning practices that strengthen platform stability over time.

Partnering closely with Engineering, Security, Platform, and Product teams, you will architect scalable distributed systems, optimize Kubernetes and AWS‑based infrastructure, and build automated delivery pipelines that support rapid and safe software releases. You will play a key role in reducing operational toil, improving system performance, increasing platform reliability, and ensuring that our infrastructure can support continued business growth.

This is a full‑time permanent position

This is an existing vacancy

Location: This is a remote location open to candidates legally authorized to work in Canada.

What you will be doing:

• Drive reliability engineering initiatives and operational excellence for mission‑critical services running on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve deployment, release, and rollback strategies across complex distributed systems.
• Establish secure‑by‑default CI/CD pipelines with robust automation, governance, and policy‑driven controls.
• Enhance platform observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and actionable alerting to improve system visibility and operational efficiency.
• Define, implement, and mature Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and reliability standards across the organization.
• Lead response efforts for high‑severity incidents, ensuring timely resolution, effective communication, and meaningful post‑incident reviews that drive continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to strengthen platform standards, improve service resilience, optimize runtime performance, and embed reliability best practices.
• Mentor and guide engineers on cloud‑native technologies, site reliability engineering principles, and operational excellence practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and accountability.

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related cloud‑native engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS services, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, and cloud networking/security best practices.
• Advanced experience operating and scaling production Kubernetes environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Istio service mesh, including traffic management, security, observability, and resiliency.
• Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using AWS CDK.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization, and incident management experience in distributed systems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Observability & Reliability

• Experience designing and operating monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions for cloud‑native platforms.
• Strong knowledge of AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, AWS X‑Ray, and Kubernetes observability tooling.
• Experience defining and operationalizing SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategies, runbooks, and reliability metrics.
• Proven ability to leverage observability data to improve service reliability, reduce incident impact, and optimize operational performance.

Software Engineering & Platform Development

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for platform engineering, automation, and operational tooling.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and event‑driven systems.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, controllers, Gateway API, ingress management, and service networking.
• Experience implementing zero‑trust architectures, mTLS, and service‑to‑service security controls.
• Commitment to high‑quality engineering practices, including automated testing, code reviews, and observability‑driven development.
• Strong understanding of resilience engineering, including autoscaling, disruption management, failure testing, and safe deployment strategies.

Nice to Have

• Experience with progressive delivery practices such as canary, blue/green, and feature‑flag‑based deployments.
• Experience working in regulated, compliance‑driven, or security‑sensitive SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with FinOps principles and cost optimization strategies for cloud platforms.
• Experience building internal developer platforms and self‑service engineering tooling.
• Cloud‑native certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, or KCNA.
• Kubestronaut certification or equivalent advanced Kubernetes expertise is highly regarded.

Salary Range:

The annual base salary for this position is between $140,000 CAD and $155,000 CAD per year.

This role is also eligible for discretionary bonus and/or commission, as well as other benefits.

What's in it for you:

• Innovation is at our core. We work with cutting‑edge technology in accounting and financial reporting, constantly pushing the boundaries to create impactful software solutions.
• We are committed to a collaborative culture, where your ideas are valued, and knowledge sharing is encouraged within a supportive, inclusive team.
• Work‑life balance is important to us. We offer flexible work options, remote opportunities, and generous time‑off policies to ensure a healthy work‑life balance.
• We offer competitive compensation, including a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans.
• We are driven by impactful work. Your contributions directly affect how our clients manage financial processes and drive their success.
• Recognition and rewards matter to us. We celebrate hard work through recognition programs, performance bonuses, and opportunities for career growth.
• We embrace global opportunities. Work on international projects and collaborate with a diverse, global team.

About Caseware:

Caseware's cutting‑edge software products are meticulously designed for accounting firms, corporations, and governments.Our teams are continually collaborating, innovating, and building upon our existing suite of products. With a customer‑focused mindset, we are building technology that is shaping what the future of audits, financial reporting, and financial data analytics will look like.

With a recent strategic investment from Hg Capital in 2020, Caseware is now in its next major growth phase as we double down on the people and products that have made Caseware so successful to date.

One of Caseware's core values is Many Voices, One Team and with that in mind, we're dedicated to building teams as diverse as our customers in an equitable and inclusive way. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Should you require accommodations or have any questions at any point during the application or interview process, please e‑mail our People Operations team at [e-mail].

AI Usage:

The recruitment process may use AI assisted tools but not for candidate screening or assessment. All final hiring decisions are made by humans to ensure fairness, transparency, and oversight.

Background Check:

Any candidates successful in obtaining an offer for a position will need to successfully complete a background check through Certn.co which typically includes an Identity Verification and Criminal Record Check. Executives and Senior Managers will undergo a Soft Credit Check as well. Candidates residingin the Netherlands and Germany are excluded from undergoing background checks via Certn.co

Security and Fraud:

Caseware takes the security of candidates seriously. All legitimate communication from us will come from email addresses ending in @caseware.com and our open positions are always listed on reputable job boards and on our website https://jobs.lever.co/caseware. We will NEVER ask for payment or financial information from you. If you receive an unsolicited job offer, proceed with extreme caution.