Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Posted 2 weeks ago

Apply Now

About the role

  • Senior Platform Engineer at Float, designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure and developer platforms. Focus on high performance, scalability, security, and automation for financial services.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, building, and maintaining Float’s cloud infrastructure and developer platform
  • Build and maintain a robust and efficient infrastructure by designing, deploying, and managing services such as ECS, EKS, and RDS
  • Optimize performance, availability, and reliability through monitoring, tuning, and continuous improvements
  • Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices by implementing and enforcing security measures across AWS environments and containerized applications
  • Design and develop a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that empowers engineers with self-service infrastructure, standardized workflows, and automated guardrails
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate platform and security best practices directly into development workflows
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in languages such as Go, Python, or TypeScript
  • Identify and mitigate risks through security assessments, vulnerability scans, and threat modeling

Requirements

  • Strong background in AWS cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (ECS/EKS), RDS, and IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go, Python, TypeScript) with experience building services, tooling, or libraries used by other engineers
  • Experience designing or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform, or similar systems that improve developer experience at scale
  • Deep experience with CI/CD, observability, and automated testing in production environments
  • Familiarity with cloud security, identity management, and compliance frameworks
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence adoption and align with engineering teams

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, equity options, and benefits
  • Hybrid work model – we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration
  • Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
  • Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office
  • Thrive in a high-trust, high-performance culture where your work truly matters

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudPythonTerraformTypeScriptGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

Report this job

Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.