Lead Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer overseeing systems for Minga's Student Behavior Platform. Focus on infrastructure, data pipelines, and analytics for enhanced school life experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead evolution of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure
  • Improve resilience, scalability, and fault isolation
  • Strengthen networking, database connection strategies, and service reliability
  • Reduce production risk through proactive reliability engineering
  • Design and implement reliable data pipelines from product systems to our data warehouse
  • Help decouple OLTP workloads from analytics workloads
  • Improve data reliability, monitoring, and lineage
  • Collaborate with product and analytics stakeholders to support reporting needs
  • Ensure data systems scale with customer growth and usage patterns
  • Improve CI/CD reliability and deployment confidence
  • Simplify local and ephemeral development environments
  • Build repeatable infrastructure patterns via infrastructure-as-code
  • Reduce friction for engineers shipping features
  • Improve logging, metrics, tracing, and system visibility
  • Define SLIs/SLOs for both product runtime and data systems
  • Lead technical post-incident reviews and systemic improvements
  • Establish clarity in operational health reporting

Requirements

  • 7+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • Strong production experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience operating systems on GCP (or similar cloud provider)
  • Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and warehouse integrations
  • Strong understanding of database scaling, connection management, and replication
  • Experience with CI/CD systems and infrastructure-as-code
  • Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker)
  • Strong debugging skills in distributed systems
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

  • 15 Days vacation + 5 Flex Days
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits for you & your family
  • Mental health and wellness support

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$130,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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