Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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About the role

  • Senior Engineering Manager leading platform infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps at Shakepay, a Canadian bitcoin financial-services company. Guiding teams, reliability, and AI-powered engineering tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps, and Developer Experience
  • Set technical direction for platform architecture and ensure roadmap execution
  • Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling, infrastructure, and reliability
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling in a regulated environment
  • Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows
  • Improve developer productivity across onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-production workflows
  • Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient
  • Own incident management practices, postmortems, and on-call rotation sustainability
  • Collaborate with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
  • Connect platform initiatives to business and customer impact

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
  • 3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps
  • Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations
  • Ability to set technical direction across developer experience and infrastructure
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills focused on business impact
  • Comfort using AI tools for development, debugging, and learning
  • Fluency in English required
  • Bonus: experience in fintech or other regulated environments
  • Bonus: prior Staff or Senior Engineer experience before management
  • Bonus: interest in Bitcoin

Benefits

  • Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
  • Stock options as part of total compensation
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
  • Work from anywhere in Canada
  • Optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
  • $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
  • 20 days of vacation per year
  • $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used
  • Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
  • Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite
  • Pay increases based on performance

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$230,000 - CA$280,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudKubernetesPostgresTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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