Senior Platform Engineer

This is a hybrid position (up to 4 days a week in office) in the Vancouver area.

What You'll Do:

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep expertise in systems design, cloud infrastructure (GCP), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation. This role will be pivotal in shaping our platform architecture, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across our systems. You will collaborate closely with product engineering teams to build and maintain the foundation that powers our applications, services, and developer workflows.

This is an opportunity to influence critical technical decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver platform solutions that enable high-velocity software development.

Responsibilities:

• Systems Design & Architecture
• Architect scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient platform infrastructure.
• Design systems that can handle large-scale distributed workloads with high reliability.
• Establish best practices for system observability, monitoring, and incident response.
• Cloud Infrastructure (GCP)
• Lead the design, provisioning, and management of infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform.
• Optimize usage of GCP services (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL).
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
• DevOps & CI/CD
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and safe deployments.
• Improve developer productivity through tooling, testing frameworks, and automation.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and reliability in operations.
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Partner with product engineering teams to design solutions that scale with business growth.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers in platform engineering best practices.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and drive adoption of modern DevOps approaches.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 6+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or related fields, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead role.
• Systems Design: Strong background in designing distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and infrastructure platforms.
• Cloud: Deep hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS/Azure is a plus.
• DevOps Tooling: Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform (or similar), CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.).
• Programming: Proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, Java, etc.) for automation and tooling.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Mindset: Growth-oriented, pragmatic problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with data engineering workflows and event-driven systems.
• Prior experience mentoring teams or leading infrastructure initiatives.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to have a direct impact on platform strategy and technical direction.
• Work with a highly skilled, collaborative engineering team.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package.
• A culture that values learning, autonomy, and continuous improvement.