About the role

Senior Platform Engineer building and evolving internal platforms for Shakepay to enhance engineering productivity. Collaborating with teams to improve system reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports Shakepay’s growing platform
Develop internal tooling and automation that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency
Implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices to manage our systems
Build and maintain observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity
Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across our platform
Collaborate closely with product engineers on infrastructure design and operational best practices
Participate in incident response and contribute to improving operational processes
Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
Help shape the technical direction of our infrastructure and developer platform

5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and performance
Experience improving developer experience through tooling or platform improvements
Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
Experience working in highly collaborative engineering teams
A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems.

🤖 AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.